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“Hold that tray,” the older woman said.
“Hold that pitcher, please—what’s tied to your apron?”
Owen leaned over the counter of the county records archive and set down the heavy brass embosser.
Mara Venn looked back at the police lights while accelerating along the paved road beside Cinder Lake, and through the narrowing gap between the cruisers behind…
Lena Vale looked back at the police lights while accelerating along the paved road beside Lake Bellwether, then saw another marked cruiser turn across the road…
Elena Vance checked her rearview mirror and watched three patrol cruisers surge across the asphalt behind her, their emergency strobes fracturing the twilight above the lake…
Hollis pinned the brass gauge to the manifold and watched the needle drop toward zero.
“Hold that plate—where did you get the button?” Mrs. Vale called before June Alvarez could set down the lemon tart.
Valerie Cross checked her rearview mirror and watched three county patrol cruisers surge over the centerline, their emergency bars cutting violent ribbons of crimson and cobalt…