talking to

• “Outside the coffee-shop window, Truman Stark stopped and pretended to look for something on the ground, stealing a glance at the brunette who stood at the corner of the pastry case inside, talking to the owner.”

  Simon & Schuster: FALSE MERMAID

• “Screwie Louie stopped talking to a girl twenty years his junior and put his arm around me.”

  Simon & Schuster: Miss Misery

• ““Behind the cemetery walls,” my sister enunciates as if she were talking to an audience.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Mountain of Crumbs

• “I often felt like I was talking to a table of deaf Vikings when I explained that steak should be cooked medium rare, not blackened and attached to T-bones.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dont You Forget About Me

• “Tully could see Pap out on the road talking to Harvey Grant, the forest ranger.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Huckleberry Murders

• “Ulric spoke as if he were talking to a child rather than a PhD archaeologist, but Dilara ignored the patronization.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Ark

• “The game we all play: my mother, my sister, my teachers at school, my friend Tanya, who is talking to a girl in Reebok sneakers, and even Maria Mikhailovna—or maybe especially Maria Mikhailovna—with her well-tailored suits and lectures on Leningrad, the cradle of the Great October Socialist Revolution.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Mountain of Crumbs

• “By then Angel and Louis had got my message, and Angel was now seated beside her, talking to her gently, while Louis waited outside in the car.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Killing Kind

• “He asked me what I thought, as I recall it, and I said the Akagi was probably talking to some tanker marus, marus being merchant ships and probably going to get oil.”

  Simon & Schuster: DAY OF DECEIT

• “There was something about the way he looked at me when he offered me the money in return for talking to Curtis Peltier.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Killing Kind

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