Rankin. Standing in another man's grave. Page 21.

  She blinked her way back into the here and now (the present time).

New Year's Eve (the last day of the year) 1999,' Hazlitt recited.

The woman lowered her head and gave it a shake.

I can appreciate (to recognize how good someone or something is ant to value them) that.

I've seen what you keep in your handbag, Ms. Hazlitt,'

he said, ushering (to show someone where they should go or to make someone go where you want them to go) her towards the door.

When his cheap lighter refused to work, she'd fished (to try to find something, using your fingers to look for it) in the bag for her Zippo.

He only lasted (to continue to exist) a year after Sally vanished. Doctors decided it was an embolism (the occlusion of a blood vessel by the embolus)