Sublime

McAnnis shook his head in disbelief. “You didn’t say anything, even after the murder, when people were so desperate to get out and get help? You let us put John Garmond’s body in a kitchen freezer, next to slabs of meat?” “Nobody asked my opinion,” said Fred Shiflett. “On this or any other thing. And by the time I learned about the freezer, he was

By 1922, Ivar secretly had hired a handful of men with no previous connection to him or his companies. These men trusted Ivar for all the wrong reasons: because he had saved them from prison or bribed them or paid them five times what they deserved. Ivar could ask these men to do things he would never ask of friends. Sometimes Ivar needed a person

He picked up the two bangers the minute he stepped out the door into the parking lot. They were on the other side of the street, no doubt thinking Roy hadn’t seen them. It was the pretty one, Science, and the killer. What was his name?

“Clyde Waggoner. I’m Martin’s father.” The man from Okeechobee was wearing a white rayon tie with a blue chambray work shirt, and khaki trousers. There was a thin nylon Sears windbreaker folded over his left arm.