Quotes from Jay Giles

She helped me understand that grieving was a human process with known stages and unknown timetables.

You take it for granted that it's always going to be that way; then without warning, it's gone. In an instant, all you're left with are the things you wanted to say, the hopes and dreams you'll never realize, a hole where your heart used to be.

He has given you a lot of rope. Don't forget that one end is tied around your neck.

could almost hear piped-in

Overloaded with stress, we often make expedient decisions that may not be in our long-term best interest.

would have preferred to do was charge

If you were a murderer, rapist or felon, it was the room where you were interrogated.

morning, at lunchtime. He

grieving was a human process with known stages and unknown timetables.

snail's pace. Hanna shook her

shook. I was used to getting a bad night's sleep, not to getting no sleep. I sat, ate, tried to hold myself together.

companion. He scooted through, raced to the car. Rosemary stood at the door. "Call. No matter what." "I will,

But as me mum used to say, 'It's always darkest before the dawn.' Things will get better; I'm sure of it." "What worries me is something my dad used to say." "Oh?" "For things to get better they must first get far worse." Her eyes widened. "Oh, dear." I had the feeling my dad knew more than her mum.

My next task was to secure a weapon. I remembered the old TV show, McGyver, where the hero would defeat the bad guys by making a device out of whatever he happened to find handy—a comb, two paper clips, a hub cap.

this thing was going to work—if Janet had

deep-set eyes,

I had the bad guys fighting, the good guys fighting, the clock ticking.

Seattle." "I'm at the Pier. My meeting just finished.

him to fax me copies of the slips. When we were finished on the phone, I did the math. Sure enough. I was at four hundred and two percent. I went back to my rolodex, found Tory's number. She could uncover who

Two o'clock found us sitting in Julian's office high atop Sarasota's only true skyscraper—One Sarasota Place. The office was impressive—an elaborate desk, expensive furniture and carpet, subdued lighting, fancy media wall. Normally, I enjoyed the panoramic view of the bay, the Keys, the Gulf. That day, I could have cared less.