Favorite Quotes from Cinnamon and Burro New Mexico mystery thriller # 6!
In Gallup, Greed -- #6 in the New Mexico mystery thriller series.
Blood soaked the gray linens and drained, thick and rouge-brown, in a puddle that flowed from a wound in his abdomen. He was clearly and obviously dead.
A coyote drifted by the
front window, cautious, gray-gold, sniffing the dirt.
As it rang, he noticed the
coyote, spooked by a sound, slip quickly into a row of juniper trees, gone in
second, a mirage of orange dust and gray clouds, like a trick of the mind.
…you were being yourself,
Daddy, the eminent Dr. Stuart, even at that young age. I am being another person, and it’s
exhausting.”
She went to work, partied
with..., bought groceries at Wal-Mart, let them spoil in her
white enamel fridge, and lived on what happened to her.
Out in this part of New
Mexico, the sky is a canvas, drawn with the weather for half the state,
underlined in orange and black ridges and small dots of insignificant green.
I like to think the book is full of color and mystery...
At the editors now -- available to drown you in mysterious capers -- July 2014.
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