The Tea Deposit
The white van pulled in through the gate of Simmons Sweet Tea at noon, and nobody on the loading dock moved. It was an unmarked panel van, clean and dull, …
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The Recipe Box
The black Lincoln across the street from my bakery had been sitting there since six in the morning, and at nine it finally opened its door. I stood at the …
The Recipe Box Read MoreThe Barn Notebook
I have taken calls in Johnston County for twenty six years, and I have never heard a captain read a notebook over the radio. Captain Rayford Barnes was standing in …
The Barn Notebook Read MoreThe Bleacher Latch
The man sitting next to my daughter Angela in the bleachers was not there for the football. I had watched him through the whole first half from the press box …
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The man from Albuquerque was not the kind of man who needed to raise his voice. He stood in the vestibule of First Baptist Church in a camel coat, holding …
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The white truck stopped at the edge of the spruce, and the man who stepped out of it was wearing a badge on his parka, as I had feared and …
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Detective Rosa Alvarez laid the clear evidence bag on the steel table of my warehouse in Petaluma, and everyone who worked for me stopped and stared. Inside was one of …
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I have been a dispatcher in Washoe County for nineteen years, and I have never had a caller stay so calm. Winifred Hale was eighty five years old and lying …
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The woman in the last pew rose with a leather briefcase in her hand just as Pastor Ricks lifted his arms for the benediction, and every head in the sanctuary …
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The man in the third pew did not look like a man who had come for the carols. He wore a gray overcoat and held his hat on his knee, …
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