Haven by Hooper Kay

Author:Hooper, Kay [Hooper, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thrillers, Fiction
ISBN: 9780425258743
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-07-30T07:00:00+00:00

EMMA ONLY JUST stopped herself from leaning closer as she looked over Navarro’s shoulder at the screen of his tablet. They were in his suite because that was where the tablet had been, though Emma couldn’t help a fleeting hope that Penny hadn’t seen them head in this direction.

Penny could be the soul of discretion. When she wanted to be.

“Your police chief was right,” Navarro said. “Nobody fitting the description of the woman you saw in your dream has been reported missing from the area. From the entire Southeast, as a matter of fact. And there’s nothing on the name Carol Preston.”

“How could there be nothing?”

“I mean nothing on any of the official missing-persons databases. I’ll send a request back to Haven, and they’ll do an identity search, find out who Carol Preston is, where she’s from. And probably where she buys her groceries and gets her teeth cleaned.” His fingers were already moving rapidly over the screen keys, sending the request to Haven.

“You can’t do that here?”

“I’m not a hacker,” he said frankly. “Haven has a lot of clout and even more money because it’s mostly funded by a multibillionaire with a lot of very powerful friends and allies, but there are privacy laws, and contrary to what you may have seen on TV, it isn’t all that easy to actually get access to official records concerning private citizens. I mean, she probably has a Facebook page, maybe even a blog, but aside from those providing precious little useful info, there are also likely to be a whole lot of Carol Prestons somewhere on the Internet. It’s not a particularly uncommon name.”

Emma moved slowly away and sat down in a reading chair near the little desk in his suite. Her dog moved immediately to sit by her feet, and Emma leaned forward a bit to scratch behind one of those alert little ears. “Facebook might give us a photo,” she offered.

Navarro glanced at her, then did a bit more rapid work on the tablet. When he was done, he frowned at the screen and then turned it so she could see. “The only human faces representing Carol Prestons are considerably older than the woman you saw. The rest—and as you can see, there are many—are using avatars or silhouettes to represent themselves. Not a bad idea, actually. Too many people don’t realize how vulnerable they can be when they use the Internet. When they put too much of themselves out there. And out there forever.”

“Note to self,” Emma murmured.

Navarro turned in his chair and leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees and linking his hands loosely. “So you’ve been dreaming of women being tortured and killed.”

She nodded. “Not often. Every few months, usually. And just since the accident.”

“Which was a head injury.”

He wasn’t really asking her questions, and yet Emma heard herself replying anyway. “Yeah, a little over two years ago. Knocked me out, cost me a few stitches and a few days in the hospital.” She still felt extremely wary of him, and wanted badly to talk to Jessie about him.

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