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Mara Venn looked back once at the police lights gaining on the lakeside road, then opened the throttle of the black motorcycle as another marked cruiser…
Nora Keene looked back once at the police lights multiplying behind her and accelerated along the paved road beside Lake Harrow, where the last clear stretch…
“Hold the tray, please—and don’t turn that key over.”
Mara Venn looked back once at the police lights tightening behind her, then accelerated along the paved road beside Lake Calder as another marked cruiser turned…
Mara Ellison looked back at the police lights while accelerating along the road beside Bellwether Lake, and when she faced forward again, another marked cruiser was…
"Please don't set that dish down yet," an older woman called out, her voice cutting through the sunlit terrace of the lakeside country club.
“Hold on—that blue stitch.”
Valerie Cruz glanced into her vibrating left rearview mirror and watched three marked county cruisers accelerate through the dusk, their flashing red and amber emergency light…
“Hold the coffee,” the older woman said.