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  1. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    Amanda was probably in her mid-fifties, a small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter's. She wore a simple diamond ring on her wedding finger, though Will knew she wasn't currently married. She had no children, or perhaps she had eaten them when they were young.
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  2. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    She glanced down the hallway, but Angie didn't want to go into the bedrooms. She didn't want to see where Michael screwed his wife, know that this was the place where he probably beat Gina. Had
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  3. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    According to a local news team investigation, response times to emergency calls from Grady averaged around forty-five minutes. An ambulance took even longer.
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  4. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter's.
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  5. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    Will thought of her time away from work the way he used to think of his schoolteachers crawling into their caves under the school building at night, lulling themselves to sleep with dreams of torturing their students the next day.
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  6. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    but I met him once and he's super
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  7. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    Michael swallowed, feeling like he was choking on his grief. "Fifteen," he said. She'd just had a birthday last week. He'd bought her a stuffed giraffe. "She's fifteen.
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    He wore a watch on his wrist, but only as a cheat to help him differentiate between left and right.
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  9. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    the reason the middle class had it so good was because they expected things to be better. They wouldn't settle for less than they were worth. They'd just get into their shiny cars and go where they were appreciated. Poor people, on the other hand, were used to just taking what was given to them and being grateful for it.
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  10. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    Inside, he had forgotten what it was like to hear a woman's voice, listen to the sort of complaints that only women could have. Bad haircuts. Rude store clerks. Chipped nails. Men wanted to talk about things: cars, guns, snatch. They didn't discuss their feelings unless it was anger, and even that didn't last for long because generally they started doing something about it.
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  11. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older.
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  12. Karin Slaughter _ Triptych

    The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.
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