''Lila Mooney stood wearing a faded print housedress with three buttons missing at the throat, watering her window garden of African violets, and thinking of the pills.'' From Over the Line(Doubleday), a mystery by forensic psychologist Faye Sultan and Teresa Kennedy
''At fifteen minutes after midnight on January sixth, when Merrill Liberty took a phone call at her table in Liberty's Restaurant, she had thirty minutes to live.'' From Judging Time(Dutton), the fourth Leslie Glass novel featuring Det. April Woo


Add your comment
The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment. If you see inappropriate language, e-mail us. An asterisk * indicates a required field.