Status Updates From Killing Orders (V.I. Warsh...

After that, I didn’t have anything to do except sleep and eat and furnish the new place. I didn’t like to think too much. About Rosa, or my mother, or the ugliness I’d found in myself that night with Walter Novick in the snow. Roger helped keep the thoughts at bay. At least during the day. He couldn’t do much about my dreams. SOME PRETTY BAD CHARACTERISTICS, OF VI SHOWED UP HERE!

As I’d hoped, she was sitting there in front of the fire, the needlepoint project in her lap but her hands still. Standing at an angle in the hall, I watched her. Her handsome angry face was strained. She was waiting for the sound that would tell her I had been shot. HOW MANY ADVENTURES CAN ONE DETECTIVE HAVE IN ONE BOOK?

That’s why Mallory hates talking to me about crime. He thinks Tony Warshawski’s daughter should be making a better world by producing happy healthy babies, not by catching desperadoes.