Murder in Paradise by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

Abi returned to her office to face another set of results, for Alexei Petrov. Toxicology had revealed the presence of venom, a conotoxin sourced from a marine gastropod mollusk. A cone snail. A quick Internet search revealed that cone snails are found the world over, but only in tropical areas are their stings potentially fatal. Abi read about the radula tooth—acting a little like a hypodermic needle—that stings the snail’s prey and pumps out paralyzing venom.

It wasn’t clear what had killed Alexei first: the bite or the car crash. But it was curious enough that Abi put in a call to the sheriff’s department. She wasn’t expected to do anything more than file a report, but she still hadn’t met Sheriff Colton and figured this was as good an excuse as any to reach out. He wasn’t available, so his secretary took a message.

Abi forgot all about it until a few hours later, when she dislocated a liver from a body and turned to set it on the scale, only to find a man standing a few feet away from her.

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