She lied to me today,” Archie said.”A teenager?” Susan said with faux surprise. “Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don’t tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a...

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.

Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak that had been burned on a high heat but remained raw in the...

But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.

They were going to have a conversation, he realized. Archie didn’t know a lot about women, but he had been married and he knew when a conversation was coming, and he knew when a woman...