Past Tense
Lee Child
"There were no dependent children separately identified as Stan Reacher. Not in Laconia, New Hampshire, the year he was supposed to be two."
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The Fallen Architect
Charles Belfoure
"Compared to his living accommodations for the last five years, his plush, scarlet upholstered seat in the first-class compartment felt cozy and quite luxurious. Watching the lush green countryside blur by the window soothed him and cleared the cobwebs from his head."
The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming
By Reggie Oliver, Series Created by Stephen Jones
"On this day we made landfall at the Island which has no name and is not marked on any map."
Dead Ringer
Kate Kessler
"Some days, like people, were assholes. For Agent Rachel Ward, the eighteenth of May was the biggest asshole of them all."
Open Your Eyes
Paula Daly
"Another year of my life . . . wasted. All that work. All that time I’d devoted when I could have been doing something else. Something more productive."
In The House In The Dark Of The Woods
Laird Hunt
"After what felt like many minutes of walking, I stopped. I thought of calling out to Captain Jane or the first-folk man or anyone at all but could not make my lips move."
The Lady Killer
Masako Togawa, Translated by Simon Grove
"Last of all, the calloused finger that should one day have worn a wedding ring slipped and lost its grip. All contact with reality lost, she plunged to the earth below."
Delayed Justice
Cara Putnam
"Her words froze in her throat at the sound she would recognize anywhere—her uncle’s laughter echoing through the room."
“The Murder Ballad of Samuel J. McCarthy”
Eryk Pruitt
"Only faraway were there sounds—probably miles off, at the freeway—but they were as significant as shushes from a seashell."
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