“Chin the impeccable. She’d grown up around the corner and navigated the street as a child, no doubt, with its shadows and its crooked light. Dante regarded her from the darkness of his father’s porch, in her patrol flats and gray suit, her pencil skirt and white blouse. If not for the blouse, its white sheen in the dark, he might not have seen her coming up the alley. There was a reason cops wore blue. It made for less of a target at night, when the hard business went down. Chin, the unimpeacha...ble. Out all hours, forever on the job. She lived on Mt. Davidson, where the sky was perpetually overcast, in one of those buildings, those lines of condos, that circled the hill at the top of the city. San Francisco was not a big town, its boundaries confined by the Bay on one side and the ocean on the other, and those sprawling suburbs to the south. Physically there was only so much space, the people lived crammed up close, the fog skittering overhead, the blue sky forever about to reveal itself, almost visible, up above the slipping clouds.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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