Alonso Lesser

“Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“It was always the pretty streets that hid the ugliest
stories. She’d learned that the hard way. ”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Secrets

“When you imagine, anything is possible.”
― Robert Agnello, The Glimmers Save Christmas

“IN THE LONG UNFURLING OF HIS LIFE, FROM TIGHT-WOUND kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train out of Cheyenne to geriatric limper in this spooled-out year, Mero had kicked down thoughts of the place where he began, a so-called ranch on strange ground at the south hinge of the Big Horns. He’d got himself out of there in 1936, had gone to a war and come back, married and married again (and again), made money in boilers and air-duct cleaning and smart investments, retired, got into local politics and out again without scandal, never circled back to see the old man and Rollo bankrupt and ruined because he knew they were.”
― Annie Proulx, Close Range