Chapters (57)
- Cover
- Dedication
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
- CHAPTER THIRTY
- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
- CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
- CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
- CHAPTER FORTY
- CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
- CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
- CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
- CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
- CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
- CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
- CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
- CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
- CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- ALSO BY FAYE KELLERMAN
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
Oliver walked into the open door. “Smells good. I’d love one of those.”
“I’ll make you one, but only if I can teach you how to do it,” Marge said.
“I’m inept when it comes to coffee.”
She made no attempt to move. “I was just telling the Loo that we didn’t see Adrianna after she left her car and came into the hospital Sunday night.”
Oliver pulled up a chair. “Yeah, all that eyestrain and I wasn’t even watching porno.”
Marge said, “I had a dream last night.”
“Was I in it?”
“No, you weren’t, but Adrianna Blanc was.”
Oliver took the coffee cup out of Marge’s hand. “Pretty please?”
“Finish it. I’m on cup number two anyway.”
“Your dream?” Decker asked.
“Yeah, my dream. All night long, I kept seeing the tapes—grainy black-and-white people walking through the frames…then I jerk myself awake with something sticking in my brain. I’m not even sure if it’s real or a ghost from a bad night’s sleep.”
Oliver sat up. “What’d you see?”
“Was there a series of frames where we saw a woman in scrubs go outside from the main entrance about six in the morning? She was looking down at her cell phone, and then she took out something from her pocket that looked like a second cell phone, then went back inside.”
Oliver scrunched his brow. “Yeah…you think that was Adrianna Blanc?”
“It stuck with me. Why didn’t we think it was her?”
“We didn’t rule her out, Marge, we just couldn’t see her face. Also Adrianna was in the hospital until around eight-fifteen. So even if it was her, it doesn’t help us much.”
“I’d like to see the cassette again,” Marge said. “I’m wondering why someone would leave the hospital and then immediately turn around and come back in. And why would she be carrying two cell phones?”
Decker said, “She might have gone outside to make a call on her cell because she works in a dead spot in the hospital.”
“Okay. That would explain one cell phone. Why two cell phones?”
“Maybe the second cell phone was a pager and she looked at the number and returned because she was needed.”
Marge nodded. “I suppose the sensible thing to do would be to find out if Adrianna was paged at the time.”
Oliver said, “She didn’t have any outgoing call on her cell before eight-fifteen.”
“Something distracted her. Who would she call so early in the morning?”
Decker shrugged. “Maybe she was about to make the breakup call to Garth, but she got paged and had to go back in.”
“But why make the breakup call at that time?”
Oliver said. “She had a few minutes and she wanted to get it over with.”
Decker said, “What’s on your mind, Marge?”