Hard Rain
Irma Venter
"The weather, like sports and movie stars, is always news."
"Mackenzie woke late, sun streaming through the French windows to fall in burning bands across his bed."
"The street that led to the crime scene was broad and almost empty."
"During the Cold War, top CIA officials carry out a secret plan designed to promote abstract expressionism and American contemporary art."
"“Dead bodies in my gardens?” muttered Irvine Pennington, sweating heavily as he led the way along a central allée of pleached hornbeam under‑planted with low‑clipped hedges of boxwood and waves of purple allium."
"Early Saturday morning, Eli and Charlotte lie in bed drinking coffee, enjoying what grainy sunlight the park allows into their window."
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