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FIVE

Two teenagers looking for a little adventure snuck out of their hoed spot, and took their new scoot-bikes for a spin in Central Park

They’d thought at first that Stephanie Ring was a vagrant,it off, and they started to give her a wide berth

But vagrants didn’tout naked on the carousel in Central Park

Eve had both of them stashed in a black-and-white One had been violently ill, and the brittle air still carried the smear of vohts so the area was under the glare of a false day

Stephanie hadn’t been beaten, nor had her hair been cut Pal, thin slices over her ars, the flesh around the wounds shriveled and discolored So that when placed on a relatively ony The blood had been allowed to drip and dry Her feet speared out at sharp angles, in a parody of a ballet stance Dislocated

Carved into her nature block letters

LET’S KILL ALL THE LAWYERS

He had finally killed this one, Eve thought, with the slow, torturous strangulation he was most fond of Eve exae Wainger

Another hts this time around

She reached for her field kit and began the routine that followed murder

She went ho the quiet she’d find there as opposed to the postholiday confusion at Central She shot a copy to her coes to both Peabody and Feeney Once her aide and the top man in the Electronics Detective Division woke and checked their ’links, she was pulling them in

She fueled on coffee, then set about the tedious task of peeling the layers from Palmer’s financial records

It was barely dahen the door between her office and Roarke’s opened He came in, fully dressed, and she could hear the hum of equipment already at work in the room behind him

“You working at ho coffee as she studied him