UNFORGETTABLE by Rhonda Nelson

Author:Rhonda Nelson [Nelson, Rhonda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

From her vantage point on the second-story landing, Zoe looked at the crowd of assembled guests and resisted the depressing urge to sigh. One of these innocuous-looking, laughing, happy people was a jewel thief. One of them, under Boyle's orders, had murdered a security guard and fled with over a half-million dollars in uncut diamonds.

That one, Zoe resolutely decided, would pay.

She shook her head. It was really such a shame that greed could lead a person to do such heinous things.

Melanie joined her in surveying the crowd. "So what do you think?" she asked.

"I think they all look innocent," Zoe replied with a grin, and it was the truth. She'd personally read over each of the About Me forms the participants had provided for the event, and many of them seemed entirely too normal for the character and duplicity needed to pull off such a crime.

There were a couple of retired schoolteachers, a social worker from Mississippi, a postman from Detroit, an engineer, a salesclerk, a flight attendant, a nurse and a couple of housewives. All of these people represented Middle America, the salt-of-the-earth types—but one of them was lying. Zoe frowned. It seemed utterly impossible to her that one of them was a thief. And yet her intel couldn't be wrong.

One of them was guilty.

Her job was to find that one and bring him or her to justice.

She had to keep focused. Hell, it wasn't as if the thief was going to wear a big T on his shirt, or brandish his loot and make it easy for her. This one had been a savvy crook, and it would take a little savvy maneuvering to unmask him, or her, as the case may be.

Zoe's lips quirked and determination stiffened her spine. Luckily, she was up to the task. "Any one of them stand out? Seem more likely than any of the others?" Melanie asked. She had briefed the group first, giving Zoe that much more time to study their forms and get Larson to run preliminary background checks.

"I'll know more when I meet them, but based on what I've read, I'd say the engineer and the flight attendant. Both frequently travel with their jobs, can move from country to country without suspicion. According to Larson, both have been to Colombia recently. Steve, the engineer, was on business for his company, and Gabrielle, the flight attendant, had a two-day layover during the time of the theft."

Melanie hummed thoughtfully under her breath. "Has Nash booked them into rooms that can be easily monitored and searched?"

Zoe nodded. "He has. Though he doesn't know it, I'm going to do a quick look-through tonight during dinner. I've arranged for Larson to put through a call I 'have to take,' and I'll slip away."

"Are you sure that's wise?" Melanie asked. "Shouldn't Nash go with you?"

"No," Zoe sighed. "I can work more quickly without him." Besides, anytime she and Nash came near a bed, she got ideas in her head that didn't have anything to do with catching a thief or any other bad guy, for that matter.

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