Mostly Murder (40 page)

BOOK: Mostly Murder

8.27Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

ads

The doctor and the nurse exchanged a quick but significant look that pretty much told her that she'd screwed up that answer. Somehow that scared her, and she shut her eyes to block the uncertainty out. She didn't want to talk to them anymore, didn't want to listen to the questions he was asking, or anything else he said. She wanted them to leave her alone, and let her figure out things on her own.

His deep voice came back, down close beside her ear, and then to her shock, he kissed her cheek. “That's okay, Claire. You just rest. We'll talk later. And in a little while, when you feel stronger, we'll see if you can eat something, and then we'll get you up and walking.”

The unknown doctor named Nicholas Black sat back down in the chair beside her, and the nurse named Monica glided out of the room with the kind of silent footfalls that only nurses commanded. Claire Morgan kept her eyes tightly closed after that, and tried to remember who the hell she was and what kind of life she'd had before she'd gone off that bridge and ended up tied to a bed.

Linda Ladd
is the bestselling author of over a dozen novels.
Remember Murder
marks her exciting return to the Claire Morgan series. Linda makes her home in Missouri, where she is at work on her next novel featuring Claire Morgan.

Visit her on the web at
www.lindaladd.com
.

With Every Turn in the Case . . .

After moving from Los Angeles to Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, homicide detective Claire Morgan has at last adjusted to the peaceful rhythms of rural life. Until a grisly celebrity murder at an ultra-exclusive “wellness” resort shatters a quiet summer morning . . .

With Every Twist of the Mind . . .

One of Dr. Nicholas Black's high-profile clients, a beautiful young soap opera star, has been found dead, taped to a chair at a fully set table . . . submerged in the lake. Back in L.A., Claire investigated the rich, famous, and the deadlyâbut she never expected the problems of the privileged to follow her to this sleepy small town. Just as she never imagined crossing the line with her prime suspect . . .

With Every Beat of the Heart . . .

Immersed in the case, Claire finds herself drawn to the charismatic doctor, spending more and more time in his companyâand in his bed. Now, to catch a killer, Claire will have to enter the darkest recesses of the human mind. But is Black leading her there to help her . . . or luring her ever deeper into a madman's grip?

Missouri detective Claire Morgan is eager to get back to work after recuperating from injuries sustained on her last job. But the missing persons case that welcomes her home in the dead of winter soon turns more twisted and treacherous than Lake of the Ozarks' icy mountain roads . . .

The man's body is found suspended from a tree overlooking a local school. He is bleeding from the head, still aliveâbut not for long. Someone wanted Professor Simon Classon to suffer as much as possible before he died, making sure the victim had a perfect view of his colleagues and students on the campus below as he succumbed to the slow-working poison in his veins . . .

Frigid temperatures and punishing snows only make the investigation more difficult. And then the death threats beginâunnerving incidents orchestrated to send Claire a deadly message. Now, as she edges closer to the truth, Claire risks becoming entangled in a maniac's webâand the stuff of her own worst nightmares . . .

Die Young

Hilde Swensen is a beauty pageant queen with a face to die for and a body to kill for. But by the time Detective Claire Morgan finds her in a shower stallâposed like a grotesquely grinning dollâHilde is anything but pretty. She's the victim of a sick, deranged killer. And she won't be the last . . .

Die Beautiful

Brianna Swensen is the beauty queen's sisterâand the girlfriend of Claire's partner, Bud. She tells Claire that Hilde had plenty of enemies, including a creepy stalker, an abusive ex-boyfriend, and a slew of jealous competitors. But what she doesn't say is that they both shared a dark disturbing secret. A secret that refuses to die . . .

Die Smiling

From the after-hours parties of a sinister funeral home to the underworld vendettas of the Miami mob, Claire follows the trail with her lover Nicholas Black, a psychiatrist with secrets of his own. But it's not until she uncovers evidence of unspeakable acts of depravity that Claire realizes she's just become a diabolical killer's next target . . .

When the Mind . . .

His doctors are the best in the world, his father one of the most powerful men in the state. But they couldn't stop Mikey from succumbing to his darkest demonsâthe ones inside his head. The ones who told him it was time to end it all.

. . . Plays a Deadly Game . . .

It should have been an open-and-shut case, especially since detective Claire Morgan's lover, Dr. Nicholas Black, recognized Mikey as a troubled former patient. Then Claire finds another body in Mikey's home. Curled inside an oven, charred beyond recognition, the method of murder mind-boggling . . .

. . . of Murder

Claire's only lead is a beaded bracelet, believed to ward off the “evil eye,” around each victim's wrist. But by the time she discovers what the dead were afraid of, she's trapped in a mind game of her ownâwith a brilliant sadistic killer. And this time, there's a method to the madness . . .

eKENSINGTON BOOKS are published by

Kensington Publishing Corp.
119 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

eKENSINGTON is a trademark of the Kensington Publishing Corp.
KENSINGTON and the k logo are Reg. U.S. Pat. & TM Off.

First electronic edition: December 2013

ISBN: 978-1-6018-3051-7

ISBN-13: 978-1-60183-137-8
ISBN-10: 1-60183-137-4

BOOK: Mostly Murder

8.27Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

Read Book Download Book

ads