whisper of evil by kay hooper

Author:kay hooper
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9781402533396
Publisher: Recorded Books LLC
Published: 2002-06-25T05:00:00+00:00

Nell wrapped both hands around her coffee cup and gazed down at it, frowning. She hadn’t been unduly embarrassed by what they’d found in that basement, but the unpleasant details of what she’d seen in her vision were something she had no intention of describing to him. “I saw Hailey again,” she replied simply.

“You mean she was… involved… with Randal?”

With a slight grimace she couldn’t help, Nell finally met his gaze. “Completely involved. Intimately involved. And it… looked to me as though they were very… familiar with each other. I think Hailey was, for at least a while, his regular Saturday night date.”

Max leaned back in his chair, staring at her with a frown. “Jesus. I guess you never really know people, do you?”

“I guess not.”

“Then why do I get the feeling that although you were shocked by what you saw, you weren’t really surprised? You expected to see her there, didn’t you?”

Nell barely hesitated. “Yes.”

“Why? Because of her connection to Luke Ferrier?”

This time she did hesitate, but only for a moment. “When Bishop was so sure there was something more he was sensing, some elusive fact we didn’t yet know tying the murder victims together, I wondered if he was picking something up from me, if it was a kind of…secondhand connection, and that was why he couldn’t get a fix on it.”

“So part of his profile was developed by psychic means?”

“Well, not his official profile. There may be psychic aspects to some of his profiles, but more usually they’re based on pure police work, investigative experience, and the psychology of the criminal mind. But he sensed something about this killer right from the beginning, even before he sent anyone down here, and I can’t think of any other way he could have done that unless he was picking it up through someone connected to this town.”

“Which would have had to be you?”

“I think so.”

“Why not the mayor? She talked to him before he sent anyone down here.”

Nell shook her head. “Even the best telepath can only read a percentage of people he or she encounters.

Bishop couldn’t read Casey.”

“But he can read you?”

“Partly. It’s difficult to explain, but some psychics have a kind of natural shield just below the level of their conscious thoughts, especially those of us sensitive to some types of electrical energy. If he touches me, Bishop usually knows what I’m thinking, but he wouldn’t necessarily be able to sense anything deeper than my own conscious thoughts. I didn’t think about Hailey being a possible connection between the men, not then, but maybe something inside me deeper than thought wondered, and maybe that’s what Bishop could sense but couldn’t quite bring into focus.”

“If he touches you.”

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