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"A skeleton?" Gary repeated, staring at her blankly

"Right," she said slowly "Bones A skeleton"

"Sarah, please Just come look"

She stood at last and followed him back to what she intended to one day be a beautiful library

She knew then what he had wanted her to see There was no skeleton in the wall

There were dozens of them

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"I heard you found a body," Adam Harrison said over the phone Adam never did waste tiht No "Hey, how are you settling in? Good trip?"

In person, Adaations--was charnified and courteous men who had ever walked the earth, Caleb was convinced But he just wasn’t a phoneto do with our case I just heard from that lieutenant friend of yours The body is--"

"Frederick J Russell, banker, whofor twelvemore, no one will know until the coroner’s finished his report A fine day’s work, even if there’s no connection," Adaet you any closer to what you’re looking for Have you discovered anything frolad that Adam couldn’t see him "Adam, I’ve only been here twenty-four hours But I’ inand see if we can discover some connection between her case and Jennie’s Frankly, I’uy I’d just as soon not find her corpse" He was afraid he was going to find her dead, though there was always hope As for Jennie, her own otten a feel for anything?" Ada That couldwhen you worked for Adaations specialized in the bizarre The unexplained The things that went bu to find anything bizarre connected to this case, though At any given time, hundreds of serial killers were on the prowl around the world Most murders resulted from a moment’s fury and were relatively easily solved The husband who suddenly stabbed his ith the carving knife over a burned h to hide the prints or other trace evidence that would lead police straight to him

But serial killers…they were hard to catch All the DNA in the world couldn’t help if the killer wasn’t in the systeers, so linking their victi them wasn’t obvious And that was just when the bodies were found At Quantico he’d once attended a lecture on the nureat place to dispose of bodies Soft tissue decayed quickly; anis further, serial killers were frequently mobile They attacked when and where the ht kill in one location and dispose of the body in another The killer on--wherever life took hiraphy and co connected into one ongoing case

Caleb was afraid that Jennie Lawson ht have been the victiht never have the peace of burying her precious daughter’s body

But did any of that add up to a feel for anything?

"No gut intuition, not yet," he told Adaenuinely wasn’t sure he’d had a feeling for anything Admittedly, he’d been interested in that house, the beautiful old colonial that was undergoing a lot of renovation work, as soon as he’d seen it But had he actually been drawn to it? Beckoned?

And was it coincidental that it ned by the gorgeous brunette from the historical museum? He was forced to admit that it probably was The wo odd about her owning a piece of it But was it odd that he had felt drawn to both?

Who wouldn’t be drawn to such a beautiful woreen eyes, the sense of fun touched with a bit of wickedness that had coence, and the lithe, sleek body that had been obvious even hidden under the dowdy clothing of a long-ago day

"Caleb--you there?"

"Yeah, yeah, I’ yet Trustin my power to find Jennie Lawson If she’s here anywhere, I will find her"

"Of course Don’t forget, follow up on everything No matter how off-the-wall you ns that will take you where you need to go"