As
she’d predicted, her editors didn’t much care about a death, even a murder, in
the suburbs. To get attention out here,
you had to be an actress or a former model.
You could be eighty years old with a walker, and die in a brutal purse
snatching, and if, some six decades earlier, you’d posed before the cameras,
the papers would run headlines along the lines of “Ex-Model Slain in Purse
Grab!” And they would find a glamour
shot from sixty years ago, and run it with a caption that said, “In happier
times.”
(from Bad Move,
by Linwood
Barclay)
8*/10. The full review is here.
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