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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

The waitress came by and refilled coffee cups. When she was gone, Silver said, “So I’m thinking about where else could this guy have stayed. And then I think of North Las Vegas and my buddy Rodney.”

Major said, “If you want cheaper thrills, North L.V. is your kind of place.”

“North Las Vegas isn’t handled by Las Vegas Metro.”

“Yeah, we’re like the dot over the big I of the Las Vegas Strip. We’ve got our own casinos and they’re cheaper than the Strip in Vegas proper.”

“I call up Rodney and ask him if he can talk to his people and find out if Garth Hammerling was a regular in one of his places.”

“I make my calls and guess what?” Major said. “He used to be a regular in a couple of my places.”

Marge and Oliver exchanged glances. Oliver said, “You found him?”

“No, I’d tell you that right away,” Major said. “There are about seven major places on my strip and they tell me he hasn’t been around for a while.”

“Yeah, I was pretty disappointed about that,” Silver said. “So I ask Rodney, you know, I’m not familiar with all of your homicides like I am with my district. Have you had any unusual recent murders…like a hanging?”

Major laughed. “And I say, if we had a hanging, you’d hear about it.”

“Yeah, the town’s not that big. A hanging would make the local news,” Silver said.

“A hanging made our local news,” Marge said. “It’s unusual.”

“Right,” Silver said. “So then I ask Rodney, have you had any recent murders by strangulation? Because hanging is essentially strangulation.”

“And I say, not that I can recall.”

Marge laughed. They had a real comic thing going.

Major said, “Most of our homicides are from knives, guns, and broken bottles that were smashed over some drunk’s head.”

Silver said, “So I was about to give up. But then you called and said you were coming down. And then you tell me that Garth might be traveling with a woman named Amanda Kowalski.”

“That’s what we’re thinking,” Oliver said. “Because she’s missing, too.”

“Right,” Silver answered. “So I call Rodney back up. Because by now, I found out that Garth likes his district better than mine. So I tell him that Garth might be traveling with a woman. So could he check out any couples traveling together?”