The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 by James Patterson & Otto Penzler

Author:James Patterson & Otto Penzler [Patterson, James & Penzler, Otto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies, Anthologies, United States, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Anthologies & Literature Collections, Genre Fiction, Collections & Anthologies
Amazon: B00QPIGTOW
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2015-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

16. Darien

I could see when I visited their place on the Upper West Side that things were unraveling. The marriage was falling apart. I confess it gave me an indecent frisson, to be the unknown cause of so much havoc.

Melanie could have been drugged (though I don’t think she was). It excited me to think I had the power to drain her vivacity so rapidly and so utterly. If women attracted me, I think I would have found her irresistible (the fragility, the vulnerability, that sense of asking to be destroyed). But of course it was the replication in her son that seduced me.

I remember picking up a framed photograph from the mantel in their Manhattan apartment. “What a beautiful child,” I said.

Simon was without affect of any kind.

They were polite and offered Scotch, a single Highland malt, very fine.

I thought of saying—just to throw an ax into their oh-so-immaculate lives—After I fucked his little ass, I buried him in the backyard next door, not fifty feet from your sandbox and swings and from the powdery mildew on your hedge.

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