The Copper Still
Ezra Walls Jr. drove up to my barn on Sunday afternoon in a green Ford truck with his grandson Caleb, a broad young man with forearms like fence posts, who …
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The Red Ribbon Letters
I sat in the little room at Ocean First Bank for two hours, with the door shut and the box open on the table, and I read every letter. There …
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The voice on the other side of the door belonged to Ed Fenwick, the president of the largest home builder in Jefferson County, and Ron recognized it before I even …
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The sheriff of Crockett County was a lean man named Raymond Ortega, sixty one years old, with a gray mustache and a hat that had seen forty summers. He held …
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Deputy Redbird read the list to me over the radio, slowly, while I wrote each name on my pad. Eight men, all past seventy five, all in Garvin County, all …
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The young woman in the navy suit was Priscilla Nakamura, general counsel of the home goods company, and she stood in my living room with eight women watching her from …
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Luc and the father of Ashley came up the path to the sugarhouse together, with two hundred guests following at a polite distance, holding their champagne glasses like candles in …
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Two vehicles came up the gravel through the falling snow, a long black SUV and a white sedan with the plates of the state. The SUV stopped first. A heavy …
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Mike keyed his radio from the floor of the boathouse, and I heard the rustle of paper in the background before he spoke. “Karen, the envelope has three things,” he …
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The man in the waiting room of Gloria was seventy six, in a brown jacket from another decade, with a cap held in both hands and a paper bag at …
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