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“Fitzhugh’s clients had better start looking for another lawyer That’s all I’ve got to give you”

“Come on Accident, homicide, what?”

“We’re investigating,” Eve said shortly and coded open her locks

“Peabody?” But Peabody just grinned and shrugged her shoulders “You know, Dallas, it’s coe that you and the dearly departed weren’t fans of each other The top sound bite after court yesterday was hie as a blunt instrument”

“It’s a shaive you and your associates such catchy quotes anymore”

As Eve slaedly in the“So you give me one”

“S T Fitzhugh is dead Police are investigating Back off” Eve started the engine, torpedoed out of the slot so that Nadine had to dance back to save her toes At Peabody’s chuckle, Eve slid a stony glance in her direction “So funny?”

“I like her” Peabody couldn’t resist looking back, and she noted that Nadine was grinning “So do you”

Eve s for taste,” she said and drove out into the rainy

It had gone perfectly Absolutely perfectly It was an exciting, powerful feeling to know that you had the controls The reports coed and recorded Such anization and were added to the s pile of data discs

It was such fun, and that was a surprise Fun had certainly not been the prihtful side effect

Who would succumb next?

At the flick of a switch, Eve’s face flashed onto a monitor, all pertinent data split-screened beside her A fascinating woman Birthplace and parents unknown The abused child discovered hiding in an alley in Dallas, Texas, body battered, mind blanked A woman who couldn’t remember the early years of her own life The years that formed the soul Years when she had been beaten and raped and tormented

What did that sort of life do to the mind? To the heart? To the person?

It had irl a social worker and had made Eve Dallas into a woing deep, and who had coation of a sensitive and ugly case