Beth Johnson

“The world is upside down. Good is bad and bad is deified.”
― David Baldacci, The 6:20 Man

“The edge of the world crept into view, at least to the straining wide-open eyes, limned and outlined in gray on gray, infinitely dim, infinitely subtle, hardly there at all, part imagination, and part hope. Then pale gold fingers probed the gray, moving, ethereal, as if deciding. And then spreading, igniting some thin and distant layer one molecule at a time, one lumen, lighting it up slowly, turning it luminous and transparent, the glass of the bowl, not white and cold, but tinted warmer.”
― Lee Child, Make Me

“When violence touched people, the damage didn’t stop once the deed was done. It burrowed into the soul and made itself at home.”
― Melinda Leigh, She Can Scream

“Blocks of row homes sported empty lots where random houses had been torn down, like missing teeth in a rotting smile.”
― Melinda Leigh, Midnight Obsession