Sunday, December 21, 2008

Blum Magnolia on Cracked Linen

Blum Magnolia on Cracked LinenBlum Magnolia of SpringBlum Love is PatientBlum Love is Kind
against despair, Rachel Dalton remained a lovely woman, with lustrous chestnut hair and blue eyes mysterious in their depths.She was also, in Hazard’s experience, uncommonly considerate. Having agreed by phone to an late from an afternoon class at the university.The police, of course, had not been interested in an adult who was missing only four hours, nor had they been intrigued when he’d not shown up in a day, two days, or three.“Apparently,” Rachel told Hazard, “we’re living in a time when a shocking number of husbands—and wives—go off on drug binges or just suddenly decide to spend a week in Puerto Vallarta with some [460] tart they met at Starbucks ten minutes ago, or walk out on their lives interview, she he arrived. She served it in the living room with a plate of miniature muffins and butter cookies.In the line of duty, homicide detectives were rarely offered refreshments, never with damask napkins. Especially not from the wives of missing men for whom the police had done embarrassingly little.Maxwell Dalton, as it turned out, had vanished three months earlier. Rachel had reported him missing when he had been four hours

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