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"Is it fair to bring them into…whatever this is?" Kelsey asked

"It’s up to the, and you’ll both have to take a few courses, too, for the proper certifications in weapons and such"

Kelsey wondered about the docu on it? He was no slouch Besides being multitalented, he hat you’d consider a " and mixed martial arts were hobbies for hie all-pro because he loved filan said, looking at her curiously

"Does he know about this?" she murmured

"We’ve coan

"Texan," Kelsey finished for hi far lad of that

"When are they ue?" he asked

"In twenty minutes At nine," Jackson said

"What’s the first order of business?"

"We’ll start with Kat," Jackson said "Most of the bodies are so decomposed that the bestus o a step further, especially now, as a an wasn’t surprised by that, Kelsey realized Of course, he knew Kat Sokolov because he’d worked with her before

"She…speaks with corpses?" she ventured

Logan turned to her If he guessed she’d been talking about hiry about it, he didn’t indicate that in any way "I think Jackson ot thethey wouldn’t normally have done for unidentified corpses with apparent causes of death Doing the appropriate tests, Kat can learn a great deal ive us inforht direction"

Jackson spoke up "Kat is excellent, and she’ll be dedicated to this case"

He looked at theot our first report from her We didn’t need an exceptionally talented ME to find out about the DNA in that finger, but as we all suspected, it was Vanessa Johnston’s"

"The killer seean said

They were all quiet for a er had been thewoman’s Now they knew it Yes, any adept technician could have gotten thes were just beginning, that Jackson Cro exactly what he was doing, and Kat Sokolov was going to be an important addition to their, as yet, uncertain unit But although Kelsey hadn’t an, she felt as if they belonged As if they were part of the Krewe of Hunters

"We should’ve been able to help her," sheher eyes; she hadn’t known Vanessa Johnston or the others, and she’d mastered some hard lessons in law enforcement, but the human ele that ca

"We just figured this out," Jackson reminded her "Now it’s up to us"

"She’s probably beyond help, but not beyond justice," Logan said "Let’s head out The longer it takes us to discover the truth, the more opportunity there’ll be for this killer to find his next victiloved as she worked over the body of Tara Grissoain studying what reood anger, not a destructive one It was the kind of anger that made him want to track down the killer A completely controlled emotion They needed to be lanced over at Jackson Crow and thought about the power theoffered

Certain tests were autoht in for autopsy In cases where cause of death seemed clear, some tests usually wouldn’t be done They were just too expensive, especially when X-rays or physical trauma pointed to the means of death--such as broken hyoid bones or the evidence of stab wounds

However, in this case, they desperately needed more clues That meant more time and money