Rain Girl by Gabi Kreslehner

Author:Gabi Kreslehner [Kreslehner, Gabi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9781477823118
Google: hqzwnQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1477823115
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2014-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

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They stood in the hallway venting their anger and grief. Young women—girls, really. There were five of them left. One of their group had been killed, and they would never forgive whoever was responsible. One wouldn’t come back, and the rest were angry and grief-stricken.

Their leader was a tall woman with a bright, alert face and dark circles around her eyes. The others formed the wall.

They wanted to be impenetrable, just like a wall, silent to the end—the detectives could see that right away. But what they knew might be essential.

They’d be hard to crack, Franza knew. They’d try to sort it out themselves, even if it put them in danger. Danger wasn’t new to them; they’d dealt with it all their lives, sometimes it had been unavoidable, and that’s why they were here, stranded in this supposed safe haven.

They were standing in the hallway, silent, wearing dark pants and jackets. It was as if light and colors no longer existed, only their faces glowed bright in the darkness, letting their vulnerability show if you looked closely—if you knew how to look closely. Then in those eyes with the dark circles around them, you could see the vulnerability, how they had been hurt again and again. They knew what it was like when the pain flared up and burned them. They knew its permanence—its persistence—and that’s why they’d fight it to the last. That’s why they were forming a wall that was impenetrable to the pain—unlike the anger, which they let in. The anger gave them strength for revenge and punishment, strength to punish the person responsible.

Erinyes, Franza thought and shuddered, furies, goddesses of vengeance.

Wham, Felix thought, they’d just shoot you down if you were in the way. Maybe I should duck?

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