Past Crimes: Excerpt and Cover Reveal
Jason Pinter
"‘Life is priceless,’ Cassie said, with practiced sympathy. ‘But your NTPs all have a dollar value.'"
"‘Life is priceless,’ Cassie said, with practiced sympathy. ‘But your NTPs all have a dollar value.'"
"He was out on Grand Nacre Drive. The driver said he came out of nowhere."
“You were born six minutes apart. Not six years, you know…you don’t have to go along with whatever she wants.”
"There are things I can’t ever admit, she whispered, things that are too big, too much..."
"Six years in Montana Woman’s Prison (MWP), four years served, and now for two years she’ll be on parole. And I’m to be her parole officer."
"I hated her too. I wanted her dead. And I know I’m not the only one."
"She still looked as if she might hurl herself against the already-flyspecked window, so I eased myself back toward it and opened the glass, just in case."
"The Savage History of Proofrock, Idaho opens looking through the two eyeholes of a mask, and of course there’s some heavy, menacing breathing."
"He couldn’t have looked more like a backup plan if he’d had the words tattooed to his forehead."
"Tinsel exhaled slowly, her nerves entirely shot. There was no point imagining horrors when the ones she was dealing with IRL were just as prescient."
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