The Whisper Place
Mindy Mejia
"Charlie told me he’d woken up at his house a week ago—a farm south of Riverside—and his girlfriend wasn’t there."
"Charlie told me he’d woken up at his house a week ago—a farm south of Riverside—and his girlfriend wasn’t there."
"The first time my understudy tried to kill me was on the day we met."
"It was dark, and it was cold."
"The little fake family were only a couple of hundred yards from the trees now."
"An agent finds reason in every conversation, even if it means not getting the best deal."
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"Johann Christian Bach would bear no excuses, accept no remonstrance."
"When she came home Friday, she found the house in a grave silence, with no fetching aroma to delight her nose. She found me slumped on the couch, my face in my hands."
"In her yellow handbag was a Saturday night special, a deck of tarot cards, and a cyanide pill for worst-case scenarios. But today, she wouldn’t need any of them."
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