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"Yes, I’ot to throw that in I’ll probably have a few meals and sleep for a few hours in the midst of all this, too Caitlin, please"

Caitlin bit her lower lip, looking away "I’m sorry I do love you, and you know it I don’t er is a vampire Yes, I am aware of that And I’m the oldest of the three of us, and I need to act responsibly And I will I swear, I would never do anything to risk the two of you or myself--or anyone else, for that ent and aware--and sleeping with a vampire," Caitlin said, then lifted a hand when Fiona would have spoken "And vulnerable We’re all vulnerable That’s life Just don’t let it be your death"

The artist’s sketch of the man from Barely, Barely, Barely who had probably ht at as everywhere

It was shown on every local news channel It was in the newspapers

In sohborhoods the residents printed up fliers and plastered them all over trees and poles and shop s

But not a soul called in to say that they had seen the man

Jagger had returned to the scene where the body had been found, though with very little hope that he would find anything, but he had to start somewhere

Of course, it was still early days, he told hi the rounds They could still hear so in the toe of the Quarter when the call came that a body had been discovered in a cemetery in the Garden District

In tenin the Alden fa about the vault as he went in, the architecture and the inhabitants The first interment had been in 1840, soon after the ceuarded by two angels, now minus their heads That detail fit in ith the asymmetrical rows of little stone houses in this particular city of the dead As for the Alden mausoleum itself, there was an altar at the far end, a small table in the center of the roo for bodies, most of them sealed in A few of the oldest had broken--or been broken--open, but not even bones remained The heat in New Orleans provided for burial of another family member or loved one in the same space in "a year and a day" In that time, the corpse was basically cremated by the intense heat alone, and as left of the re cell" at the end of each tomb so that someone else could be interred in the first body’s spot

This tohtly different from the one where Tina’s body had been left, so this time the killer had left his victim on the altar that stretched across the back wall

She was beautiful--blonde and beautiful Her face was perfect, like porcelain Her hair was ales of the stone She was laid out in a white halter-necked gown, as if she had just been to a dance Maybe a pro

There didn’t appear to be a er turned to hiuide Can you head out and talk to him? I don’t think he found her until eleven, and the first tours go through around nine, so et lucky and someone saw our killer Can you find out just how he stu aler slipped on his gloves and began his intense search of the corpse

As before, the hed softly This tih

"Noe’re in serious trouble," a voice said fro Dewey had arrived He was standing in the doorway, caught in the dustinto the tohed dryly "Hey, buddy You look like a character out of aover his last h He kneasn’t trying to be funny

The other man strode on in, stared down and shook his head

"They have an ID on her yet?"

"Nothing certain, but sheAbigail Langdon, last seen at a frat party last night One of the unifore ID picture If it’s her, we’ll have to bring someone in to er said

Dewey slipped on gloves and stepped closer to the body "Skin as white as snow The killer seems to like blondes And he’s bold Wants his victims found, and found by ordinary citizens This is considered one of the safest cemeteries in the city to visit"

"I’er said "There are too many places for someone to hide We call them the cities of the dead, and the dead don’t call the cops when you run in to escape observation"

Dewey looked at the victim’s eyes, turned her, touched her and took her body te at exactly the saht, very late Can’t say much about lividity, because there was no blood left to pool beneath the skin Again, I can’t help but think she was killed elsewhere, since I’ a drop of blood around the body anywhere What a shaer asked

"I’ll need a kit, but no obvious signs of violence or trauetarian, and I don’t avoid leather, but I’d never buy fox fur They electrocute the poor little things with a rod up the rectuer pointed out

"Just don’t ever buy fox fur," Dewey said, stabbing a finger at him "The point is that she looks as pure as the day she was born The killer didn’t leave a mark on the body that I can see so far I’m not even sure she suffered It’s alo to sleep or soot to let the criue," Jagger said "How soon can she be scheduled for autopsy?"

"Not right away, I’raphed, bathedset for first thing toht she’d be a priority"

"You would think so, right? But a city bigwig--potential candidate for ht, and his children are roaned inwardly Another night he’d have to head for the ue Slip in Maybe traumatize a few eton had taken the job of night attendant He could just call Billy and ask him to handle the matter