Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel by Tess Gerritsen

Author:Tess Gerritsen [Gerritsen, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Thrillers, Medical, General, Mystery & Detective, Fiction
ISBN: 0345515633
Amazon: B007MDK4RC
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2012-08-28T05:00:00+00:00

THOSE WORDS ECHOED IN Jane’s head as she drove home that evening. Her mother was right: If you lost your family, you lost everything. She’d seen what happened to people who lost husbands or wives or children to murder. She’d seen how grief shriveled lives, how faces aged overnight. As hard as she might try to offer them comfort, to promise them closure through justice, she did not really know, or want to know, the depths of their suffering. Only another victim would truly understand.

Which was why a school like Evensong existed. It was a place for the wounded to heal, among those who understood.

She’d spoken with Maura that morning, but had not updated her about Zapata’s fate. With their prime suspect dead, and Teddy presumably no longer in danger, they had to decide whether it might be time to bring him back to Boston. She pulled into her apartment parking lot and was about to call Maura’s cell phone when she remembered there was no reception at Evensong. Scrolling down her call log, she found the landline number that Maura had last called from, and dialed it.

Six rings later, a tremulous voice answered: “Evensong.”

“Dr. Welliver, is that you? It’s Detective Rizzoli.” She waited for an answer. “Hello, are you there?”

“Yes. Yes.” A startled laugh. “Oh my God, they’re so beautiful!”

“What’s beautiful?”

“I’ve never seen birds like those. And the sky, such strange colors …”

“Um, Dr. Welliver? May I speak to Dr. Isles?”

“I don’t know where she is.”

“Could you ask her to call me back? You’ll be seeing her at dinner, right?”

“I’m not going. Everything tastes funny today. Oh! Oh!” Welliver gave a squeal of delight. “If you could just see these birds! They’re so close, I could touch them!”

Jane heard her set down the receiver. Heard footsteps walking away.

“Dr. Welliver? Hello?”

There was no answer.

Jane frowned as she disconnected, wondering what species of bird could have so enchanted the woman. She had a sudden vision of pterodactyls swooping in over the Maine woods.

In the world that was Evensong, anything seemed possible.

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