By Iris Johansen
#1 New York Times bestselling writer Iris Johansen is again with the 1st e-book in a chilling new Eve Duncan trilogy that asks the query: will Eve live to tell the tale what lies ahead?
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan’s venture is to convey closure to the households whose household have vanished. She is aware their anguish—her personal cherished daughter, Bonnie, used to be taken from her while Bonnie was once simply seven years old. it's only lately that this secret was once resolved and Eve may well start her trip to peace. Now, Jim Doane desires an analogous type of solutions that Eve regularly longed for. His twenty-five-year previous son may possibly or is probably not lifeless and he has basically burned cranium fragments as attainable evidence. yet he can't visit the police for solutions with out risking his personal secrets and techniques and darkish previous, so as an alternative he chooses a daring step to discover the truth—a fact that takes Eve down a twisted course of insanity and evil and into the darkest center of her personal history. Doane wishes Eve Duncan’s talents and he’ll do something to get them.
Even if it skill taking Eve.
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When he saw me he got up and took a Sig Sauer pistol from the table, stuffing it into his waistband, the grip hanging over the lip of his drawstring pants. We shook hands and he walked me over to my bike. He straddled it, started it up, and rode the throttle in neutral. He yelled over the engine, “That Spectre pistol Core's selling you? ” “Mommy. That's too much for a pistol, Bird. It was me I'd charge you three hundy” “That's cool of you, dude, but he ain't budging. ” I stuck my chin at the bike.
Or get shot here and let my partners waste him? Or hope one of them gets a clean line on him right this second? Or lie down and try to stay out of the way of everyone's bullets that were sure to puncture the Monte Carlo any second? Or, or, or … drop the keys? Yes, drop the keys. If I was going to die, then he was going to die too. I pulled the keys out of the ignition and let them fall into the footwell. ” “Motherfucker—” I leaned forward and Provestgaard did too. Mellor, who was closest to the passenger's side of the car, stuck his revolver in the rear window gap and emptied it.
Shoot, in that year, 1987, he probably even had his own computer. It didn't appeal to me. The bullet put the rush of the streets in me and through me. It guaranteed I'd never direct anything but myself, and convinced me that large desks were for castrated dummies. I thought, Fuck that, I'm gonna be an undercover. ” AUGUST 2001—JANUARY 2002 IF ANYTHING, THE shooting proved that my job, and therefore my life, was not glamorous in any way. Pathetically, I'd imagined that undercover life would be like Miami Vice—full of cigarette boats, fast cars, expensive clothes, and perfect tens in bikinis sitting in my lap while I negotiated with drug kingpins.