Obsession in Death by J. D. Robb EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: J. D. Robb
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ON A COLD, CRISP MORNING IN THE WANING DAYS OF 2060, LIEUTENANT
Eve Dallas stood in a sumptuous bedroom done in bold strokes of
rich purple, deep metallic grays, and quick splashes of green.
Outside the ad blimps manically touted the AFTER CHRISTMAS
BLOW-OUT SALES! and street vendors hyped fake designer wrist
units and knockoff handbags to throngs of tourists packed into the city for the
holiday week.
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Outside life went on. Inside the plush bedroom with all its color and style,
it had stopped.
An enormous arrangement of white lilies and purple roses in a tall,
mirrored vase on the pedestal centered in the wide window couldn’t quite
mask the smell of death. Instead the fragrance layered over it, sickly sweet.
On a bed big enough for six lay the body of a woman who’d once been a
stunner. Even now her meticulous style showed in the perfect coordination of
silver lounging pants, silky lavender top, the perfectly manicured nails—
hands and feet—with polish of dark purple on all ten digits.
Her heavily lashed eyes stared straight up to the ceiling, as if mildly
puzzled.
A razor-thin, bone-deep wound circled her throat. Blood, now congealed,
had spilled from that ugly curve to soil and spoil the soft gray bedding and
mat in the fall of pale blond hair.
Her tongue sat in a faceted glass dish on the glossy nightstand beside the
bed.
But the kicker, at least for Eve, was the message written on the wall
above the thickly padded headboard, in precise block lettering, black against
the gray.
FOR LIEUTENANT EVE DALLAS,
WITH GREAT ADMIRATION AND UNDERSTANDING.
HER LIFE WAS A LIE; HER DEATH OUR TRUTH.
SHE SHOWED YOU NO RESPECT, SPOKE ILL OF YOU, SOUGHT TO
PROFIT BY UNDERMINING ALL YOU WORK FOR.
IT WAS MY PLEASURE AND HONOR TO BALANCE THE SCALES.
JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED.
YOUR TRUE AND LOYAL FRIEND.
Beside Eve, her partner, Detective Peabody, blew out a long breath. “Holy
shit, Dallas.”
Whether or not Eve thought the same, she turned to the uniformed officer
in the bedroom doorway. “Who found her?”
“Her admin. The vic missed a dinner meeting last night, then didn’t come
in to work, where she had a morning meeting. So the admin, Cecil
Haversham, came by. Nobody could reach her via ’link, she didn’t answer the
door. He had her codes and key pass—stated he waters her plants and
whatnot when she’s out of town. Let himself in at about nine-fifteen, heard
the bedroom screen on like it is now, and walked through until he found her.
We got the nine-one-one at nine-nineteen, so the timing works.”
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