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."
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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."
Wrecked
Joe Ide
"Isaiah was meeting Dodson at the Coffee Cup, a neighborhood institution stuck between a dry cleaners and a Mexican market. He was nervous about it. They were going to talk about partnering up, the conversation long overdue. "
The Lies We Told
Camilla Way
"You think it’s going to be so simple, starting a family, and then when it’s taken from you, the future you’d imagined snatched away, it feels like a death."
Alice Isn't Dead
Joseph Fink
"The funeral was strange because Alice’s death had been strange. No cause of death. No body. No certainty."
The Reckoning
John Grisham
"The truth had slowly been revealed, and once he had the full grasp of it, the killing became as inevitable as the sunrise."
Riddance
Shelley Jackson
"I owe my discovery of the Sybil Joines Vocational School to a bookstore and a ghost."
Under My Skin
Lisa Unger
"The words burrow into my sleep, taking on urgency, growing louder, until the sound of my own frightened shout wakes me."
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