She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pockets…where she felt the cold steel of a revolver.

Good in bed?

.” I watched her sip at the drink some more. She was strong, healthy, but also petite enough that I was certain I could overpower her. I’d made the right decision not to tranquilize her,...

You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.

What is my favorite part of book one? It would have to be the last chapter because that’s when the consequences catch up to Eric and it became clear that what he considered fun and...

…hero or not, he wanted to hold her forever and not let go.

But suspense presupposes uncertainty. No matter how nightmarish the situation, real suspense is impossible when we know in advance that the protagonist will prevail (as we would if Woolrich had used series characters) or will...

All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the street. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.

Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours.

SWAT? For me?” Still trembling, one hand clung to the ambulance gurney, the other held a massive sterilised cotton wool wad under my nose.”Tactical Support was busy. You got Dennis and Arlo,” said Harry, speed-reading...

No se puede escribir una novela o componer una canción, no se puede acordar una adquisición o ampliar una oferta sin una completa dedicación a la tarea que se tiene entre manos.

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

Cade shifted against the sheets, trying to ease his painful erection. He was going against every protocol there was. Sleeping in the same bed as the woman in his protective custody? Genius plan. It would...

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

What are we, Charlie’s Angels?

Ice Man, his friends had called him. She’d give him a different nickname, like Sex on a Stick or Horny Toad.

I want. I want. I want!

The truth remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread itswings and fly away.-TARA

¡El dinero es ridículo! ¡El crédito es ridículo! ¡Convenga usted en que la vida tiene mucho de ridículo!

So tall and lithe in his suede and leather outfit. So utterly gorgeous it almost ached to look at him.

WEST SALEM ~ October 2011A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure turned from the shadows of his grisly handiwork and stared at Sorcha.Her muscles tensed....

Myron lay sprawled next to a knee-knockingly gorgeous brunette clad only in a Class-B-felony bikini, a tropical drink sans umbrella in one hand, the aqua clear Caribbean water lapping at his feet, the sand a...

Listen carefully. I’d crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.

She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her,...

We all draw different lines. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they don’t. We agree on forms of evil, but judge degrees of it, saying only the worst of humanity is truly bad. And everything along the...

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.

I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type.”~ Grace Madison, PhD.

Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth – and get loads of...

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.

will you shut up and kiss me before I change my mind?

What was it? What could it–His last thought was surprise.

It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to bethese days, when I got this call. I could hear the rainbattering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.

The right things often happen for the wrong reason.

It didn’t take a professional to end a life- Riley

Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?”Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL

Now remember, they say if two people go together to visit the Taj Mahal, that means they will always be together. Are you ready for that?””Guess I’m stuck with you then.

Every single time it was grand. I loved the moment when you announce the stickup and everything suddenly goes brighter and sharper and the world seems to spin faster. You show them the gun and...

Going for it and changing what you could change-that’s what success was all about.

I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black

They were opposite in so many ways, but it was the kind of difference that was balancing-her softness with his steel, his instinct and her logic. He was teaching her by example to have courage...

The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can’t stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can’t stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.At...

That evening we sat in the courtyard of the hotel once more, watching the sun sink below the western isles. I told Alexi what had happened that day. I fancied I could glimpse the grey...

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary – grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon.

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

The arms, legs, and torso with head were dragged away in sections as the children were captivated by the drama, zealously chewing their candies with sticky teeth.

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.