"She passed a dead dog on her way to the tenant shack." Chapter 1, pg. 1

"There was something in that little pool of light penetrating the empty doorway.
It was a hand.
She tried to identify it as something else, anything else." Chapter 1, pg. 5

"I wish I were invisible, she thought miserably.
She became very still and looked down the short length of her legs at her tennis shoes.
Of course, if I don't look at them, they can't see me, she jeered at herself, when she realized what she was doing.
But it worked for a while." Chapter 2, pg. 17

"She shouldn't have died like that, Catherine thought, as she watched the coroner's jury being heaved across the porch and into the shack. A dog shouldn't die like that. Then Catherine remembered the dog's corpse she had passed that morning. The same person killed them both, she thought with...