Defending Angels
“devising death.
—Paradise Lost, John Milton Bree squashed the impulse to make a rude gesture after Gabriel Striker, PI. Instead, she walked past the Dumpster to the edge of the sidewalk and peered around the corner of the building. A police cruiser headed the wrong way down the one-way street sat in front of the restaurant, red lights flashing. Either the crowd gathered outside had come from the restaurant or from the street, probably both. A pair of teenage boys held their cell phones up, ta...king pictures of the scene. Bree recognized the bartender, a cheerful woman in her midforties who didn’t look very cheerful at the moment. The shorter of the teenagers recognized the bartender, too. Huey’s was a popular place. “Hey, Maureen! What the heck happened in there?”
Maureen shrugged, her face bewildered. “What started it is some woman dove over a table to get at this guy.”
Bree cringed.
“And then this freak wind came upriver and blew the place apart. Well,” Maureen amended, “not apart, as such.MoreLess
—Paradise Lost, John Milton Bree squashed the impulse to make a rude gesture after Gabriel Striker, PI. Instead, she walked past the Dumpster to the edge of the sidewalk and peered around the corner of the building. A police cruiser headed the wrong way down the one-way street sat in front of the restaurant, red lights flashing. Either the crowd gathered outside had come from the restaurant or from the street, probably both. A pair of teenage boys held their cell phones up, ta...king pictures of the scene. Bree recognized the bartender, a cheerful woman in her midforties who didn’t look very cheerful at the moment. The shorter of the teenagers recognized the bartender, too. Huey’s was a popular place. “Hey, Maureen! What the heck happened in there?”
Maureen shrugged, her face bewildered. “What started it is some woman dove over a table to get at this guy.”
Bree cringed.
“And then this freak wind came upriver and blew the place apart. Well,” Maureen amended, “not apart, as such.MoreLess
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