Kittling: Books

  First Lines: Millie Lang could hear the girls gossiping through the thin walls of the boardinghouse. They were talking about her . On the ...

  First Line: There was the sound of bells and then the silence-- the kind of quiet that only comes with snow, capturing the soundwaves of l...

  First Line: Private investigator J.D. Spengler of Tampa Bay, Florida, was taking the highway exit from I-90 West onto Montana State Highwa...

  First Line: " Play me. "   When basketball phenom Jaya Long, niece of Tribal Police Chief Lolo Long, begins receiving death thre...

First Line: Crazy Horse struggled to sort among the flood of sensations, to push away the confusion and the fear, to keep his focus on what ...

First Line: " You look... exactly like her. "   It's been three months, and Lena Nguyen refuses to believe how her identical t...

  First Line: You see something and you raise your hand .   Fragile Star Radley has been battered by life. Fortunately, her thirteen-year-ol...

First Line: Numbers floated round my head like stars .   Not until the Nazis march into Paris in 1939 does young Odile Souchet begin to unde...

  First Line: The Crazy Mountains were on fire and Cassie Dewell sat alone in her car at night on McLeod Street across from the Grand Hotel ...

First Line: The wetlands dedication was a resounding success until the gunman showed up .   When her job in Boston ends, wildlife biologist ...

  First Line: 1989. The woods were wrong . Dr. Theo Cray is a computational scientist. He sees patterns in chaos. When mutilated bodies are ...

First Line: "The trap is set and he's on his way," Cassie Dewell said to Sheriff Jon Kirkbride . It's been three long...

First Line: Du Pré looked at the young doctor who was looking at a file on his computer screen . When you're a good man with a fami...

First Line: Sun-bleached wood creaked under Willie With Horn's weight as he made his way up past others who were sitting in the stand...

First Line: Du Pré's sleep dissolved; he heard bacon sizzling in a pan, he rolled to Madelaine and found her gone . Madelaine's...

From the Acknowledgements: After I was fortunate enough to win the Cowboys & Indians Tony Hillerman Award with "Old Indian Tric...