Quotes from Jeff Shelby

I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of them liked to read. Or maybe they liked to read because I'd read aloud nearly every children's book in print.

She tucked her chin to her chest and looked at me like I was a Neanderthal. Except I remembered that scientists had recently discovered that Neanderthals were actually probably capable of complex thought and communication so that analogy wouldn't work anymore.

She nodded, the small silver hoops in her earlobes bobbing forward. "I think it was the day before he was arrested." "Why was Chuck calling you?" She stared at me for a moment, then smiled the same smile I

looked watery, like it had suddenly filled

Feels more like a vacation if we're terrorized by an airport shuttle driver and frisked by TSA.

actually seemed more like his butt said it because at the moment, he was on his hands and knees, trying to fit into an elevated, three-and-a-half foot crawlspace that appeared to not have been entered in close

And being stubborn. "Why don't you just let me get up there?" I said, trying to

I looked at Jake. I was firmly planted in the 'Lolly is real' camp. Our real estate agent had passed on the bit about Lolly being the ghost of the original owner of the home and that past residents had reported her presence due to various incidents. The one thing they'd all mentioned, however, was that she'd seemed friendly and helpful, as far as ghosts go. I was totally fine with a friendly and helpful ghost.

I took a couple of deep breaths, my heart finally setting back into my chase.

She was sitting in a beach chair, facing the lit-up buildings across the water.