Cold, Cold Bones (A Temperance Brennan Novel Book 21) by Kathy Reichs

Author:Kathy Reichs [Reichs, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2022-07-04T18:30:00+00:00

21

“I was right?” Certain I hadn’t heard correctly.

“Yeah.”

“About what?”

Slidell arced an arm toward the scene at our backs. “All this don’t clang a dozen bells for you?”

“What do you mean?”

“You and me, we worked a suicide looked a lot like this. CO poisoning, homeowner dead at the wheel in his garage. Only it wasn’t no suicide.”

Suddenly, I did recall. The man’s name. His ashen face. His crumpled glasses on the floor mat by his feet.

I’d been too close to this situation. Too distraught to note the parallels.

Not Slidell.

“Dr. Ajax,” I said.

He nodded. Then, tight, as though the admission might cause his mouth to blister, “I think you’re on to something. Boldonado. Kwalwasser. Sanchez. And there was that psycho art project in the bus.”

“You believe I have a copycat?”

“I believe you got something ain’t good.”

At that moment, two things happened.

The gritty sound of wheels caused us both to turn. Hawkins and Sandford were rolling the gurney up the driveway. The body bag, now secured with mesh straps, held a very large bulge.

Icy pellets began stinging our faces.

“There’s more.” I started to tell Slidell about the bucket.

“Not here. I’m freezing my nuts off.”

“Come to my place. I’ll make coffee.”

“That works.”

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