A Multitude of Sins (2014)
“The gears protested at his off-timed shift into first while he fumbled for the mike, wrenching the wheel around with his left hand to pull the car out of a shrieking skid.
“Carl? What’s wrong?”
“It’s Isadora. She’s headed for the cottage, and the state she’s in, I don’t know if she’ll make it.”
He hit the accelerator, the rain crashing against the windshield, blurring the line of lights marking the highway.
“What happened, Carl?”
“She got a phone call, said something to Max about Jenny, then to...ok off for her car at a dead run. I didn’t have time to call you. I’m right behind her—south of the bookshop. Where are you?”
“My car. Day Street and the highway inter—good God!”
A swerving blur of headlights spun around the curve to the south, and Conan froze, watching the car skid broadside, nearly colliding with another approaching from the north, then weaving back into the far lane. It passed him in an arching spray; a silver Stingray. He geared down, waiting in frenzied impatience for a break in the traffic.MoreLess
“Carl? What’s wrong?”
“It’s Isadora. She’s headed for the cottage, and the state she’s in, I don’t know if she’ll make it.”
He hit the accelerator, the rain crashing against the windshield, blurring the line of lights marking the highway.
“What happened, Carl?”
“She got a phone call, said something to Max about Jenny, then to...ok off for her car at a dead run. I didn’t have time to call you. I’m right behind her—south of the bookshop. Where are you?”
“My car. Day Street and the highway inter—good God!”
A swerving blur of headlights spun around the curve to the south, and Conan froze, watching the car skid broadside, nearly colliding with another approaching from the north, then weaving back into the far lane. It passed him in an arching spray; a silver Stingray. He geared down, waiting in frenzied impatience for a break in the traffic.MoreLess
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