Tim felt like a buyer annoyed with the salesman’s pitch…

“Every time he thought he’d familiarized himself with its contours, grief surprised him; it was ever bountiful, ever yielding.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Look at me closely. Ask yourself: Do I look scared?”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“•The next forty-eight hours passed tediously and painfully, like a jagged kidney stone.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“When you wrong someone, you don't get to say which grudges people may or may not hold,”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Kauffman Luxury Vintage vodka. Distilled fourteen times and filtered twice, once through birch coal, once through quartz sand, it was produced from the wheat…

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Anticipation of pain leads to fear, and fear amplifies pain,” he says. “Expectation of relief from pain increases the opioids in the brain, makes…

— Gregg Hurwitz

“In daylight her death had taken on a reality. It lived in the house with them, in the dust on the floors, the blankness…

— Gregg Hurwitz

“The perforated men and the women with square heads left Tim with the strong impression that the government should stick to issuing budgets, not…

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Never give up the personal—it will return as a weapon wielded against you. He”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“He was Chester the Molester. A rich businessman looking to adopt. A dealer in human organs on the black market.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Closure’s a sham invented by talk-show hosts and self-help authors.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“You don’t ask why clarity comes, you just hope it does.” Tim”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Delphinium scopulorum, better known as Rocky Mountain larkspur, wasn’t just cardiotoxic; it had neuromuscular blocking effects, shutting down a body limb by limb until…

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Expert witnesses are like whores, but more expensive.” Rayner”

— Gregg Hurwitz