Sleeping Doll by Deaver Jeffery

Author:Deaver, Jeffery [Deaver, Jeffery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective, Fiction, Suspense, Women Sleuths, Thrillers, General
ISBN: 9781439166413
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-06-15T07:00:00+00:00

sentimental as her sister-in-crime.

The discussion meandered and they revealed nothing helpful. In interviewing and interrogation, it’s a well-known rule that abstractions obscure memories, while specifics trigger them. Dance now said, “Do this for me: Pick a particular day. Tell me about it. A day you’d both remember.”

Neither could think of one that stood out, though.

Until Dance suggested, “Think of a holiday: Thanksgiving, Christmas.”

Linda shrugged. “How about that Easter?”

“My first holiday there. Myonly holiday. Sure. That was fun.”

Linda described making an elaborate dinner with food that Sam, Jimmy and Rebecca had “come up with.” Dance spotted the euphemism instantly; it meant the trio had stolen the groceries.

“I cooked a turkey,” Linda said. “I smoked it all day in the backyard. My, that was fun.”

Prodding, Dance asked, “So there you are, you two and Samantha—she was the quiet one, you said.”

“The Mouse.”

“And the young man who was with Pell at the Croytons’,” Kellogg said. “Jimmy Newberg. Tell us about him.”

Rebecca said, “Right. He was a funny little puppy. He was a runaway too. From up north, I think.”

“Good-looking. But he wasn’t all there.” Linda tapped her forehead.

A laugh from her comrade. “He’d been a stoner.”

“But he was a genius with his hands. Carpentry, electronics, everything. He was totally into computers, even wrote his own programs. He’d tell us about them and none of us could understand what he was talking about. He wanted to get some website going—remember, this wasbefore everybody had one. I think he was actually pretty creative. I felt bad for him. Daniel didn’t like him that much. He’d lose patience with him. He wanted to kick him out, I think.”

“Besides, Daniel was a ladies’ man. He didn’t do well with other men around.”

Dance steered them back to the holiday.

“It was a pretty day,” Linda continued. “The sun was out. It was warm. We had music going. Jimmy’d put together a real good sound system.”

“Did you say grace?”

“No.”

“Even though it was Easter?”

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