The Bone Box (2012)
“Anna Jo Bonners’s mother stood on the front steps of her house and faced Birdy Waterman with ice-pellet eyes. Carmona Bonner was a woman who, as Birdy recalled, seldom smiled. She had the kind of humorless face that owed more to the fact that she’d lost one of her front teeth in a car accident than to what kind of person she really was. She simply never smiled. After Anna Jo’s murder, few thought she had many reasons to anyway.
Birdy braced herself against the chill by wrapping her arms around ...her chest. “My cousin is dying and I’m just trying to tie up some loose ends,” she said.
“My daughter is dead and there are no more loose ends,” Carmona said.
Birdy persisted. “May I come inside? Chilly out here.”
Mrs. Bonners stood her ground. “No,” she said. “You should have put on an extra sweater. Always cold up here this time of year. Maybe you’ve forgotten, living in the big city.”
The remark was almost laughable. No one who visited Port Orchard would have considered it a big town, much less a major city.MoreLess
Birdy braced herself against the chill by wrapping her arms around ...her chest. “My cousin is dying and I’m just trying to tie up some loose ends,” she said.
“My daughter is dead and there are no more loose ends,” Carmona said.
Birdy persisted. “May I come inside? Chilly out here.”
Mrs. Bonners stood her ground. “No,” she said. “You should have put on an extra sweater. Always cold up here this time of year. Maybe you’ve forgotten, living in the big city.”
The remark was almost laughable. No one who visited Port Orchard would have considered it a big town, much less a major city.MoreLess
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