By J.B. Turner
A devastating race-against-time crime mystery for enthusiasts of John Grisham, Sara Paretsky, James Patterson, and Karin Slaughter.
She sought after the reality. They sought after her dead.
Since her first day at the Miami bring in, rookie reporter Deborah Jones has been agitating for a shot at one specific tale. William Craig is on demise Row, convicted of killing Senator Jack O'Neill's purely son. there's no query of his guilt. Craig murdered the younger guy who was once acquitted of raping his granddaughter. There are just 5 weeks and sooner or later till his execution. And Craig has no longer given a unmarried interview. Deborah Jones has assembled an entire file at the case, together with courtroom transcripts and each newspaper clipping. She desires to recognize what brought on Craig to precise revenge. and he or she has her personal, very own purposes for wishing to discover the reality. dealing with editor of the bring in Sam Goldberg is easily conscious that Senator O'Neill has strong pals. the 2 males have crossed swords on a few events. yet opposed to his larger judgement, he makes a decision to offer Deborah an opportunity to end up herself. in simple terms with one caution - 'Be cautious. Florida could be the Sunshine nation to most folks. yet it's now not. It's a swamp. Don't ever omit that.'
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Ant’s brother Drew was an actor, and had been my fiancé in the late nineties when I first met Christopher. For a couple of years we’d all hung around together having silly tea parties and ‘happenings’ in Becca and Ant’s huge house. Just after my first Zeb Ross book had been published Drew had shot his first major drama series, in which he was the young parochial sidekick of a literature-loving detective. A couple of years later there was a Millennium party, where everyone except Christopher and me dressed as bugs.
Today. All day. Last night as well. Bob came back early. ’ ‘No, but he’s sent messages. He was supposed to text me when his plane landed at Gatwick, which I thought would give me loads of time to get home and change and make the place look lived-in and stuff. When I heard a text come I just thought it was Bob at Gatwick – it was the right sort of time – and I was in bed with Mark, so I didn’t look at it immediately. I mean, it’s half an hour to get off the plane and out of the airport, and then another half an hour into Victoria, then twenty minutes across to Paddington, and then three hours to Totnes to pick up his car and then another twenty-five minutes to drive back here.
It was a man, half hidden in the gloom. B was already sniffing his ancient walking boots, and he was stroking her between her ears. He was wearing jeans and a duffel coat, and his messy black and grey hair was falling over his face. Had he seen what had happened? He must have done. Did he hear me suggest the whole thing? He looked up. I already knew it was Rowan. So he had come. Had he been coming every Sunday for all this time? ‘Hi,’ I said. ‘You’re …’ ‘Hello,’ he said. ’ ‘Yeah. I think so. ’ ‘Cold.