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Chapters (57)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. CHAPTER ONE
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. CHAPTER THREE
  6. CHAPTER FOUR
  7. CHAPTER FIVE
  8. CHAPTER SIX
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT
  11. CHAPTER NINE
  12. CHAPTER TEN
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  20. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  21. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  22. CHAPTER TWENTY
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  32. CHAPTER THIRTY
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  42. CHAPTER FORTY
  43. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  52. Acknowledgments
  53. About the Author
  54. ALSO BY FAYE KELLERMAN
  55. Credits
  56. Copyright
  57. About the Publisher

“Last I checked, the official language wasn’t Italian—”

“Just giving you a little culinary history.”

“You know, Dunn, I see a cable TV show in your future. You, in full uniform, steaming soy milk while telling your viewers how to prevent an ADW. We’ll call it Cop Does Coffee.”

“Sounds like a porn movie.”

Oliver smiled. “That would work as well.” He finished his latte. “So what’s the plan?”

Marge signaled for a right turn. “First we return the tapes to Ivan Povich.”

“Talk to him yet?”

“I left a message, asking him for the tapes from the cameras in the emergency vehicle areas.”

“Why didn’t Povich give them to us in the first place?”

“Don’t know. Betcha when we asked him the first time, he assumed we had wanted only the pedestrian entrances and exits.”

Oliver said, “So you like the theory of Adrianna being carried out in a body bag?”

“Maybe.” Marge paused. “If the murder did occur inside St. Tim’s, I’m thinking about what could have gone wrong? Who, besides Garth, was close enough to Adrianna so that an argument would end in murder?”

“Why do you think the murder was done by someone she was close to?” Oliver told her. “From what Aaron and Greg told us about Adrianna, she could have been having a fling that went bad. Maybe she was fooling around with a married doctor or administrator. Maybe she threatened to expose him.”

“But then why would she suddenly decide to start exposing her hookups?”

Oliver said, “’Cause she was pissed off at Garth but taking it out on other men. That’s what women do.”

“As opposed to men?” Marge laughed. “Think serial killers who hated their mothers?”

“I’m just trying to get your goat.” He waited a moment. “Although if someone tried to kill her, you’d think she would fight back.”

Marge turned left. “Unless the two of them were stoned. What if she was blitzed?”

“No cocaine, no booze, no pot in her system. We know that much.”

“It could have been something more exotic. Who would have better access to drugs than someone in a hospital with free rein over all the locked medicine cabinets?”

“They don’t have free rein,” Oliver said. “I think they have to sign in for them. We should check the drug logs. It would buttress our case if some weird drug was checked out and she had it in her system.”

Marge said. “Problem is that sometimes you have to know what you’re looking for to find it in the tox screen.”

Oliver opened the thermos and licked the foam with his finger. “You’re looking skeptical. What’s bothering you?”

“That Adrianna’s hookup would suddenly turn deadly. What could have been said or done that made it go so terribly wrong?”

“You know how these things work, Margie. It starts off as something stupid and ends up as something tragic.”