Heart of Ice by Lis Wiehl, April Henry
By Lis Wiehl, April Henry
Elizabeth Avery might simply be the woman round the corner. yet what she has deliberate will make your blood run chilly. before everything look, the crimes seem random. Arson. robbery. Fraud. homicide. yet those are greater than random crimes. they are strikes in an more and more lethal video game. And the only point they've got in universal: a girl who's wonderful, smart . . . and deadly. Elizabeth Avery has a winsome smile and perfect determine, yet beneath is a middle of ice. She's a grasp manipulator, convincing strangers to do the unthinkable. and he or she orchestrates all of it with no getting too shut. previously. whilst Elizabeth ruthlessly disposes of an inquisitive younger reporter, her crime catches the eye of Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, FBI particular Agent Nicole Hedges, and crime reporter Cassidy Shaw. They recognize they're facing a cold-blooded assassin who may perhaps strike at any time. What they do not know is that they are already on a first-name foundation with the killer. And certainly one of them can be subsequent on her record.
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Hard. Painless. She imagined laying one of the photo evidence rulers next to it. About a third of an inch across. The size of a large pea. It was a lump. There was no other word for it. A lump. In her breast. Could something so small kill her? Nic couldn’t move, couldn’t draw a breath. The shower beat down on her. Maybe it was a cyst. But maybe it wasn’t. It could be cancer. Breast cancer. Loretta, their old receptionist, had fought breast cancer for three years. Fought and lost. When Loretta finally died, she had been reduced to bones and slack skin.
It’s clear that Foley thinks he smarter than any three people put together. ” Cassidy tucked a strand of her blonde bob behind her ear. ” They were all looking at the same guy, Allison realized, but seeing him through different lenses. “No matter what, be careful. ” Nicole took her last bite. “A guy like that will only let you see the surface. Maybe the only people who really know what he’s like are the women he’s killed. ” Allison hadn’t thought of that story in years. Along the way it had gotten mixed up in her mind with the riddle about a man with a rowboat who needed to transport a fox, a chicken, and a bag of corn.
If Allison hadn’t turned her head at just the right moment, she might not have seen it. The boy in the red cap snatched the ice-cream sandwich from the girl in the leg brace. Allison opened her mouth to call him on it, but before she could say a word, the girl met her eyes and gave her head one swift shake. CHAPTER 6 Portland Fitness Center Elizabeth stood in front of the mirror in the women’s locker room and wished for the thousandth time that she were not merely pretty, but beautiful. Life would be so much easier.