The Brass Hinge
Marianne Hale walked up my front steps with the brass hinge in her left hand and a leather badge case in her right, and the porch went silent. Dennis stood …
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The Tailgate Call
The two sets of headlights that came down my gravel road belonged to a cruiser of the Baxter County Sheriff and a gray sedan with no markings, and they parked …
The Tailgate Call Read MoreThe Last Painting
Brett had not taken his eyes off the painting behind me, and I knew then that I had been right. I turned the last page face up and laid it …
The Last Painting Read MoreThe Envelope from Ray
The Coast Guard boat came around the point of the island at half past two in the afternoon, a gray forty five foot response boat with a blue light turning …
The Envelope from Ray Read MoreThe 1987 Night Shift
Dr. Daniel Reyes set the check down on the long pine table of the ski lodge, and the whole room of forty people slowly turned toward us. He was a …
The 1987 Night Shift Read MoreThe Garden Club Brooch
The woman who stepped into the parlor behind Judge Harriet Pinckney was Marguerite Okafor, general counsel of the New York jewelry company that had bought my brooch designs, and she …
The Garden Club Brooch Read MoreThe Notebook Page
Captain Ruth Erickson passed the spiral notebook page to the lieutenant, and he read the list under the dome light of the rescue truck. Three farms. The first two names …
The Notebook Page Read MoreThe Two Fifteen Pilot
The old woman sat across from me in the office of the lawyer in Wichita with her hands folded on a cane, and she did not look like a woman …
The Two Fifteen Pilot Read MoreThe ER Chart
The ER doctor was a young man named Dr. Thibodeaux, and he stood at the foot of the bed with a tablet in his hand and a look of polite …
The ER Chart Read MoreThe Brass Tag
Mr. Whitcomb stood in the middle of the tent with champagne dripping off his hand onto his good shoes, and every fisherman in that room watched him. The brass tag …
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