Author: thachtr

Part 1 The first thing Mara Donnelly noticed was that the dog was not looking at the guns. There were enough of them. Men in…

Part 1 The auction lasted eleven minutes, and most of that time was spent waiting for someone to speak. Margaret Hale sat in the third…

Part 1 The morning Cora Sterling understood that her husband had left her to die, the world was so quiet she could hear frost loosening…

Part 1 Blood spread across the final page of a sixty-million-dollar contract. It slid between the Russian and English paragraphs in a thin crimson ribbon,…

Part 1 The night Sarah Quinn nearly bled out on her kitchen floor, she was more worried about the unfinished spreadsheet on her laptop than…

Part 1 At 2:14 on a rain-black Tuesday morning, Nurse Claire Jenkins watched the chief of surgery decide that a man deserved to die. The…

Part 1 Nine secretaries had lasted less than a week under Matteo Vitale. The tenth spilled coffee across his desk before nine in the morning….

Part 1 The first thing Penelope Brooks noticed was the gun beneath the stranger’s coat. The second was the way everyone else in Pharaoh’s Gourmet…

Part 1 The first time Penelope Gallagher woke with a man’s arm around her waist, she blamed the storm. The second time, she blamed exhaustion….