Destroying Angels (Leigh Girard Book 1) by Gail Lukasik

Author:Gail Lukasik [Lukasik, Gail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-07-18T22:00:00+00:00

I must have told Deputy Ferry, a short dark man with a mustache shaped like a mascara brush, at least twelve times how Salinger and I had found the bones. Only after I had promised to come by the station at nine in the morning to give an official statement had he been satisfied.

I threw the covers off and shivered over to the far corner of the room, where I had shoved one of my many boxes of books. I dug through the box until I found the one I was looking for, the perfect antidote to the evening’s events: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, Tales and Sketches. Book in hand, I crawled back under the covers. Salinger looked up with an expression of annoyed willingness on her face.

“You’ve done your work for today,” I told her. “You can go back to sleep.”

As I read the first few pages of Hawthorne's book, I was again reminded that he understood how past sins eventually have a way of surfacing. They come back to haunt us, even when they’re not our own. In my mind's eye, I saw the small holes in the skull where the eyes had been, felt the lightness and fragility of that extinguished life. Whoever had buried that baby in the recesses of a cave had a secret that had finally surfaced.

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