After receiving the same message, Donatti waited for the beep and said, “I’m going to Paris for New Year’s. Someone over there is playing Bach’s Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor. I’m thinking about getting tickets. Talia has a tin ear and I know you have an unhealthy fixation with the pipe organ.”

A pause.

“We’re leaving on the twenty-seventh, so give me a call back right away. If your passport is current, you got nothing better to do, and you want to hear the piece, I suppose you can tag along.”

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Marc Neikrug

About the Author

FAYE KELLERMAN is the author of twenty-seven novels, including twenty New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. She has also penned two bestselling short novels with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, and recently teamed up with her daughter Aliza to cowrite a young adult novel, Prism—the story of four teens in an alternate universe. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

ALSO BY FAYE KELLERMAN

Blindman’s Bluff

The Mercedes Coffin

The Burnt House

The Ritual Bath

Sacred and Profane

The Quality of Mercy

Milk and Honey

Day of Atonement

False Prophet

Grievous Sin

Sanctuary

Justice

Prayers for the Dead

Serpent’s Tooth

Moon Music

Jupiter’s Bones

Stalker

The Forgotten

Stone Kiss

Street Dreams

Straight into Darkness

The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights: A Book of Short Stories

with Jonathan Kellerman

Double Homicide

Capital Crimes

with Aliza Kellerman

Prism

Credits

Jacket design by Richard Aquan

Jacket photograph by Andreas Kindler/Johner/Glasshouse Images

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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