“He squeezed the steering wheel with both hands and eyeballed the minivan parked in front of a faded pink singlewide. If Gene Holcomb had blown any of his lottery winnings, he’d not spent a dime updating his mode of transportation.”
“I was pregnant with my daughter when my mother died. I didn’t know this then. If I had, maybe it would have made a difference.”
“After the twenty-seventh file on Monday morning—DE ANGELIS/HEKTOR/PAUL—Josephine was already antsy, bored, though she tried to fight the feeling. She became suddenly desperate to know what, if anything, resided in her desk.”
