Breakdown (54 page)

“Perfect love casts out fear, we are told. None of us is capable of perfect love, but as we help each other along this difficult journey which is life, the love we bear for one another does ease our burdens. And even in death, that love binds us together; truly, in death, we are not divided.”

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Table of Contents

1. Graveyard Shift

2. In the Garden of Bad and Worse

3. Bedtime Stories

4. Charms—or Something

5. Stimulating News—or Is It Malice?

6. Leaks Everywhere

7. Friends I’d Rather Not Have

8. Motherly Advice

9. Cable News

10. Politics as Usual?

11. Here a Mob, There a Mob

12. Murder in the Cathedral

13. A Long Pitch

14. One Armagnac Too Many

15. A Hard Day’s Day

16. Angel Mother—Not

17. Cleaning Out the Dead

18. The Writing on the Wall

19. The Augean Stables

20. Chatter in the Peaceful Valley

21. Something Was Happening Here but You Don’t Know What It Is

22. Wade’s World

23. A Reporter’s Lot Is Not a Happy One

24. Talking to the Ex. Sigh.

25. In the Huddle

26. Car Talk

27. Just a Flesh Wound

28. Book Carvings

29. Talking to a Special Sister

30. Lost Daughter

31. Where, oh, Where Did the Daughter Go?

32. Trunk Line

33. Suicide or Murder: Take Your Pick

34. Drug Req

35. A Hard Day’s Hunt—with Peasants

36. Enter a Billionaire

37. Paranoid Delusion?

38. Hot on a Trail—or Something

39. Chasing Shadows

40. Lawyer Fees: Impressive!

41. A Step Ahead

42. Old News

43. Alas, Poor Sister

44. Neighborhood Gossip

45. Fire Trucks, Fire Trucks

46. What’s in a Picture?

47. Cleaning Up for a Change

48. The Purloined Photo

49. In the Aquarium

50. Gone Fishing

51. V.I.’s Last Case

52. Raising the Dead

53. Vampires Don’t Kill Easy