A Photographic Death by Judi Culbertson

Author:Judi Culbertson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

AND THEN IT snowed. Detouring over to the window on my way back from the bathroom at dawn, I saw that the world had been outlined in white by a fine pen—­tree limbs, the curves of wrought-­iron gates, the tops of shop signs. The snow had left a white line along the edges of half-­timbered buildings. Yet it did not plunge me into any fantasy about the world looking this way in Shakespeare’s time. I fretted that the snow would not stop falling, and we would never be able to get home.

“DCI Sampson probably doesn’t even work on Saturdays,” I grumbled to Jane an hour later. She had leaped out of bed and was doing morning stretches.

“You know what? You’re suffering from post-­traumatic stress. How are you feeling anyway? Physically, I mean.”

“Oh, I’m okay.” I moved my neck experimentally, and felt an unwelcome twinge that radiated down my back. When I swallowed I found that some soreness lingered. “I guess I’ll live.”

“You need coffee. And oatmeal. Wouldn’t oatmeal with brown sugar taste good on a snowy day?”

“I said I’ll live.”

“Good. Then get dressed. We have a lot to do and the police station opens early.”

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