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The Girl From Blind River

Gale Massey

"Jamie shielded her eyes from a gust of wind blowing down the street and crossed the dirt yard in front of her uncle’s trailer."


Bad

Chloe Esposito

"I called my mother up last week and told her that Alvie was dead."


Understudy for Death

Charles Willeford

"To Marion Huneker,” I raised my glass, “wherever she may be."


Her Pretty Face

Robyn Harding

"DJ’s sister had been missing for eleven days."


Bad Girls

Alex de Campi and Victor Santos

""Jorge, I'd marry you for a Manhattan.""


The Other Woman

Daniel Silva

"One hundred and fifty miles to the northwest, a few lazy bends along the river Danube, an exhibition featuring the works of Sir Peter Paul Rubens—painter, scholar, diplomat, spy—limped toward its melancholy conclusion."


Pirata

Patrick Hasburgh

"I was watching the waves at a left point break we call Palmitos while soaking my foot in a tide pool."


Eden

Andrea Kleine

"It was embarrassing to take the bus, but it was doubly embarrassing to hand the driver a coupon that had been cut out of the back of a Cheerios box."


A Brush With Death

Ali Carter

"It occasionally crossed Alexander, Earl of Greengrass’s mind that his past would come back to haunt him."


White River Burning

John Verdun

"Why the hell’s he getting involved in the investigation? That’s not his turf. And why you?"



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