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"Probably," Jackson said, a slight edge to his voice, "the author of the book didn’t dig up the bones because he didn’t have access to the house, and if he had had access, he ela’s ability to work inside the mind of a victim--and a killer"

"Of course," the senator said softly "Well, I’ll leave it all in your capable hands, and, of course, these gentlemen are at your disposal," the senator said He offered his hand to shake with Jackson, and then headed out the kitchen door to the courtyard His trio waved andhim

Jackson slipped down froela caer to find a killer--living or dead--as long as it ina Holloway had not killed herself Grable Haines opened one side of the back door of the black sedan for the senator; DuPre entered before Blake Conroy, letting the ate opened; the car backed out carefully onto the street

"There’s a pecking order," he noted "DuPre is the closest to the senator Then Conroy, and then the chauffeur, Haines DuPre considers hihest in the senator’s esteem, and he’s very aware he’s thetheela asked hih" He turned to look at Angela "What hosts?"

"I was surprised, too," Angela said "He talked about the way that Regina had died," she said "He said that he could see that her neck was broken--or that her head was at an angle--and that her eyes were open She was staring, wide-eyed, as if she had been in terror of so And he told iven him the creeps, but that he had still denied it to his wife He wants ghosts to have killed his wife And he feels that people hated him after she died, because they believed that it was his coldness that had led his wife to suicide I think he wants sohost If we can prove that there are ghosts in this house, he’ll be vindicated"

"Ghosts don’t kill people," Jackson said flatly

"And I’hosts exist Maybe he believes that if he can get a crack teaators just to say that the house is haunted and there are ghosts here h"

"I need to study the coroner’s photos," he said, turning and heading into the kitchen He opened his co, and accessed a nu behind hirisly death scene--and that he was still aware of the subtle and alluring scent of her perfuold hair fell on his shoulder She didn’t notice She was looking at the screen

He had looked at the various photos--Regina Holloway taken in death froe points--several ti the dead woman’s eyes

"Once, science actually studied the eyes in forensics--believing the last thing a person had seen was preserved, like filela murmured "It does look as if she was terrified"

"Terrified--and looking at so," Jackson mused Heher over He caught her by the aret up to the room"

She was a distraction He was concentrated on the position of a body, and he was still aware that touching her, he felt the softness of her flesh, and the vitality beneath it

He gave hi a team, he reh she didn’t say so, she was convinced that ghosts walked around, and ina Holloway’s bedroo his teeth Was he afraid,he wanted to deny was true?

No, reality and truth lay at the heart of this death There was a hu out there responsible

He took the center stairs up to the second floor, aware that she was following hiina’s roo the position of the body "She didn’t dive forward," he said after a ela walked to the balcony and turned around, placing her pal like this"