For two minutes she was dead. The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal—and it left her lifeless . . . until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, detective Nan Vining is still questioning her strength, her safety, even her sanity: Can she ever again be the cop—and mothe...
The Dinosaur Ball, the benefit for the Museum of Natural History, was around the corner. She had been behind schedule even before Rory’s accident. She also wanted to start planning flowers for Rory and Tom’s wedding. There would be a wedding next June. She refused to think otherwise.Rory stirred ...
The prints the tech found were consistent with Nitro’s.Vining flipped through the drawing book. She had assumed the violent pictures of women were together in the spiral-bound pad, but they were scattered among the images of animals, trees, and flowers. Somehow, that made it creepier.Back upstair...
The prealarm sounded. She was barely able to hear it over the blaring television. Granny still wasn’t wearing her hearing aid.She set her purse on the kitchen counter and dropped her jacket onto a dinette chair. Turning the oven on low, she shoved the pizza inside.She heard the television in the ...