The girl in the picture had big ears, dark eyes, dark, straggly hair, and full cinnamon lips. Detective Tia Paulson watched Dr. Rothman and his daughter, Melody Rothman, with the same fascination she felt watching the drug dealers she caught on the street get buried in the courtroom ( Read more... )

Jonathan insisted she had to check the mirror again--after all, without her glasses on she might be mistaken. Madam Duvey stared--nose to nose with her ruddy reflection--she stretched out a strand of hair grown from somewhere in the middle of her swirled up-do. The strand was exactly like the rest of her hair, smooth and gray, only much coarser. A ( Read more... )