We see it all the time in suspense fiction. The good guy takes down the villain and does some variation of riding off into the sunset, such as setting sail in the Caribbean (The Firm), slipping quietly into Mexico (The Shawshank Redemption) or beginning a new life in obscurity (The Town). But in the digital…
At first I thought it was a rain cloud that would bring relief from the summer’s scorching heat wave. But as I neared the giant gray cloud hovering over Texas Highway 71, I realized it wasn’t a thunderhead but a billowing cloud of smoke. I drove right past it, totally unaware that I’d just driven…
On a sweltering summer afternoon, Sophie Barrett walks into a nightmare. A sniper has opened fire on a college campus. When the carnage is over, three people—plus the shooter—are dead and dozens more are injured. Sophie escapes virtually unscathed. Yet as details emerge from the investigation, she becomes convinced that this wasn’t the random, senseless…
