Crime is Murder (1984)
“Within two weeks after taking up residence at Masterson House, Lisa was a part of the community’s most exciting event. This was unpremeditated and a little bewildering, but there didn’t seem to be any stopping place any more than there seemed to have been a beginning.
“If I didn’t know better, I’d swear you planned it this way,” Johnny said. “I don’t understand. If we came here for some big project, why not let me in on it? I’m not exactly a stranger.”
“No, you’re not,” Lisa admitted. “I am.”
S...tatements like that infuriated Johnny. Sometimes Lisa suspected that was why she made them. They were driving down to town. It meant an extra spurt of speed from the station wagon, an extra screech of brakes on the curves. It was June. The May rains had given way to a warm mugginess that might erupt into a thunderstorm without warning; but today the sky was clear and the lake, that bright blue patch that appeared intermittently through the pines, was dotted with the handkerchief-white sails of small pleasure boats taking advantage of the weather.MoreLess
“If I didn’t know better, I’d swear you planned it this way,” Johnny said. “I don’t understand. If we came here for some big project, why not let me in on it? I’m not exactly a stranger.”
“No, you’re not,” Lisa admitted. “I am.”
S...tatements like that infuriated Johnny. Sometimes Lisa suspected that was why she made them. They were driving down to town. It meant an extra spurt of speed from the station wagon, an extra screech of brakes on the curves. It was June. The May rains had given way to a warm mugginess that might erupt into a thunderstorm without warning; but today the sky was clear and the lake, that bright blue patch that appeared intermittently through the pines, was dotted with the handkerchief-white sails of small pleasure boats taking advantage of the weather.MoreLess
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