Barney Harrigan! The name, his voice, the memory stunned her. Her fingers shook and she steadied the phone against her ear. “Is this Naomi Forman?” the man inquired, still tentative and uncertain. The red numbers on the digital clock displayed three in the morning. The hour of desperation. No call could come […]
Spears of orange from the morning sun poked through the patches of mist that clung to the mountain peaks. From his poor vantage in the speeding Daimler, Albert von Kassel waited for the castle’s watchtower to appear. Beside him Dawn dozed, her head resting on the red velvet pillow that Garth had provided after he […]
THE black limousine picked its way cautiously around the potholes on the rain-slicked streets, past the darkened hulks of aging buildings. Only the tentative cheerless lights of many bars, embedded like dulled cat’s eyes in the unrelenting blackness, testified that human life was out there somewhere. A light turned red. The big car stopped. Suddenly […]
Fiona’s heels sank into the soft earth as she moved across the marsh to the edge of the creek. Her thin raincoat offered little comfort against the persistent drizzle that threw a gloomy chill over the gray morning. She heard Cates’s shoes making squishing sounds as he followed close behind her toward the two policemen […]
THE AIR conditioner sucked in the steamy Washington air, wheezed, faltered, then regurgitated a dank iciness into the interior of the coffee shop. The establishment, as Fiona had observed countless times, had the air of a comfortable old street lady, shabby but serviceable, a touch world-weary but still aiming to please the customer. “How […]
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