In the Clearing (Tracy Crosswhite, #3)

by Robert Dugoni

Teachers, newspaper reporters, and police officers—the most underpaid professions on the planet.”

That was the problem with crowing too loudly. You gave away your position and made yourself vulnerable.

The one consistent thing about psychopaths was their ego. They never imagined getting caught because they believed they were smarter than everyone.

“It’s a terrible thing when a child is stripped of his perception that his parents are perfect. Kids want to believe their parents will always be there to take care of them. One of the hardest things about getting older is losing that naïveté that allows us all to believe in myths and fantasies, having it replaced by harsh reality. We don’t want to believe our parents aren’t perfect, some far from it.”