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"The library"

"That’s not on Duval Street"

"It’s a happening place"

He laughed softly "Maybe, but…while you’re there, want to do me a favor?"

"Sure"

"I need these books," he said, and rattled off three titles She scrounged in her purse for a pen

"All right, I’ll get the that they do Want to ’s place?"

He didn’t call it "’s place

He didn’t intend to stay

"Sure," she said "I’ll get the books and be right there"

She hung up Bartholo him at his house Or-the Beckett house"

"The

"No, no The old Beckett ho with me?"

"Good God, no The Lord alone knohere the two of youonce you’re there! Far roaned "That’s not all that…it’s certainly not all that we do"

"I’ around the street Watch the Fantasy Fest preparations See if I can find the regular habits of one too long God knows, that fellow is so deter you alone"

Katie planted her hands on her hips "Chill He’s going to get me some pepper spray And I’, either"

Bartholomew leaned toward her, his face set seriously "Katie, this killer is strong It seems that he snuck up on Stella Martin, surprised her and killed her with his bare hands You’re not a weakling, but this isn’t someone you want to tackle"

"Which ," Katie said "He is just about a ninety-pound weakling"

"Come, my dear, let et these books," she said

At ho his grandmother’s silver candlesticks and the lace doilies she had used to protect the beautiful old, carved inal crime scene

He also laid out his photos of the second crime scene

He set out the files with pertinent crime-scene infor No one had seen anyone at the museum No one had seen anyone on the street No one had seen anything In Tanya’s case, she had been at O’Hara’s bar She had left She had never been seen again by anyone-except the killer-until she had appeared in the tableau

Stella Martin The police were still questioning people, but he knew aro She had rifled through his wallet, left his sh the rear and been killed beneath the branches of a large sea grape tree

So house She had been staying off Duval to avoid the cops, probably She had gone around back She had argued with Danny Zigler, and he was

The crime-scene pictures were different Tanya had been laid out like Sleeping Beauty; in death, she had been gorgeous, heart-wrenching

Stella Martin had been du He left the table and went to the door, letting Katie in She see that it was the first tirandfather had died

And he hadn’t changed anything within it

"Co her hand, pulling her in Then he pulled her against him and she looked up and he stroked her cheek and kissed her Instant fire Anticipation increased by the fact that he knew her, and knehat could co "Sorry"

"Not at all" She cleared her throat, looking down the hallway "I got the books What about these books do you think will help?"

"They were the books Danny Zigler was reading"

"And you know this because…?"

"I broke into his house"

"Lord, David-"

"No one will know I knohat I’"

"Great You’re a practiced lock pick"