cozy-mystery

The open zipper at the bottom revealed two important details: her ass was as luscious as he had imagined, and she wasn't wearing any panties. His palms started to sweat. How was he supposed to fasten her dress when all he wanted to do was tear it off?

Daddy had a strict rule about firearms. Anything we killed we had to eat. No amount of barbecue sauce would make a hairy guy like you palatable.

If I can't talk smart I'll just sit back and listen.

When men were ready to marry, look out. Their evolution busted out all over. They nabbed the closest female hanging out near their caves, anyone who looked like she would clean his woolly mammoth tunics down by the creek, keep his fires burning, bear his children, and tote his brood around on a fur-clad hip.

from Pearls and Poison_ __n two minutes the cops are going to come barreling though that door,_ I whispered to Auntie KiKi hoping to get her mind off the body in the back room. __ny suggestions how we tell these workers out here their candidate just croaked?_ __ell The jackass bit the big one, hip-hip hooray Gloria wins, then run like the dickens before someone recognizes us.

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn__ look like the proper place for you,_ said Chase.

It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl__ boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

I pointed, still unable to utter a word. Tim looked down at the spectacle behind the shed, his face swiftly draining of color. He gripped my arm with a clammy hand. And then he did something I'd been waiting half my life to see: he dropped into a dead swoon at my feet.

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.__ou__ better watch out, Chase. He__ passed over to the evil side.

There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure." - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2

When men were ready to marry, look out. Their evolution busted out all over. They nabbed the closest female hanging out near their caves, anyone who looked like she would clean his wooly mammoth tunics down by the creek, keep his fires burning, bear his children, and tote his brood around on a fur-clad hip.--Ellie Overton

The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It__ the karma effect,_ Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. Chase had never seen her look so foreboding.__ou__ better watch out, Chase. He__ passed over to the evil side.

[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.

Quote taken from Chapter 1:"Alma idly wondered if he'd blow his nose, too.He did. Twice. He made it honk, the sound reminding Alma of Harpo Marx squeezing his bulb horn.Isabel darted a look at Alma, giving her the don__-you-dare-giggle squint.Alma dug her fingernails into her palm, the inappropriate laugh rising from her throat as she looked up at the ceiling. Blue refolded his handkerchief and returned it to inside his seersucker jacket. Thankfully, Alma__ urge to laugh subsided.

Dean was about to dismiss me with a quick nod, but my name caught his attention. __ey, you__e that Death Diva girl, right?____raid so.___uh._ He studied me a moment as he extracted a lighter and pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket. I studied him back. Dean__ head bore the aftermath of what had to be the world__ worst hair transplant. Reddish brown crop rows marched back from a severe, slightly lopsided hairline. The whole mess had been meticulously blow-dried and sprayed in a swept-back style more appropriate to the 1980s.He tapped out a cigarette. __ou make money doing that?___hy, yes I do,_ I said. __hat__ kind of the point of it._ That__ the number-one question I get asked.__hat__ the weirdest thing you__e done, eh?_ The number-two question, right on schedule.

My name is Jane Delaney and I do things my paying customers can__ do, don__ want to do, don__ want to be seen doing, can__ bring themselves to do, and/or don__ want it to be known they__ paid someone to do. To dead people.