Crime & Justice · fiction
Something Better for Sophie to Inherit
A gun pressed against my spine while seven hundred people applauded me thirty feet away. That was the first strange thing. The second was that the woman holding it was trembling harder than I was. Beyond the closed coatroom doors, my ballroom glittered beneath three crystal chandeliers imported from Venice before I was born. Champagne moved...
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- Crime & Justice
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 6
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- fiction
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