You may have left the house keys in the door and carried the groceries inside. She gazed at the door. That s really terrifying. You could change the locks again, Dunne said. He tapped the jagged ash from his cigarette into his palm, then carried the ash to a wrinkled grocery sack on the floor.
Sergeants get rookies to do their paperwork, that s one of the good parts of the job.
Congratulations, she said. About time, Dunne said, and looked at the furniture in the front room and hallway, then leaned against the kitchen doorway and crossed his forearms and ankles. A flock of sparrows flushed up in the yard and she followed their flight until they d completely disappeared in the east. She said, You d think you d have a feeling that an unfamiliar person was in the house with you, but I didn t. Everything seemed so normal until I heard the spring on the back door.