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Larry Sweazy
"The closet door stood wide open and an empty cardboard box sat at my feet."
"The closet door stood wide open and an empty cardboard box sat at my feet."
"Above them, in the trees, a man had been watching with binoculars."
"The key slides and turns in the lock, as smooth and slippery as a silverfish."
"Between the day in May 2005 that Ellie had failed to come home and exactly two minutes ago there had been not one substantial lead regarding her disappearance. Not one."
"The voice, female and distinctly Geordie, sounded far too happy for the early hour of the morning."
"Sometimes Katharine felt the evening rush hour to be an almost tranquil thing."
"“Dog pizza,” said Sal, first thing when I walked in. He was wearing a black apron, a bow tie, and a white shirt with garters on the sleeves, looking like the type of bartender who gets shot in westerns."
"Tony DeMarco made a handsome living selling drugs, breaking bones, and, when the opportunity presented itself, sending a .22-caliber bullet ricocheting off the inside of a mark’s skull."
"In the course of his career, James Bond had been held up and threatened in this sort of way literally dozens of times—often, as now, by a total stranger."
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