Now That She's Gone (33 page)
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Authors: Gregg Olsen
Birdy stared at Kendall.
“She was too badly burned for me to observe the cigarette burn,” she said.
They both watched until the clip found its way to its end.
“I hope this goes viral,” Brenda said and the screen went black.
Another advertisement for a cruise popped up.
“She got her wish, Birdy,” Kendall said, ignoring the ad and wondering why the advertising tool on YouTube thought she was in her sixties. “More than five hundred thousand views and climbing.” She refreshed her laptop screen. “Five thousand more since we started watching.”
Birdy looked at her friend. Her expression was grim. “This is going to encourage her, Kendall. She's a narcissist who lives for this kind of attention. She craves it like we crave our morning coffee.”
Kendall reached for her lukewarm tuxedo mocha. “Right. She's going to do something big.”
“Unless we stop her,” Birdy said. “She has to be stopped.”
Photo by Howard Petrella
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
New York Times
bestselling author G
REGG
O
LSEN
has written more than twenty books. As a journalist and true-crime author, Olsen has received numerous awards and much critical acclaim for his writing. He's been a guest on
Good Morning, America
,
Dateline
,
CBS Early Show
,
Entertainment Tonight
,
48 Hours
, and news programs on CNN and Fox, as well as other national and international TV programs. The Seattle native and his wife live in rural Washington State, where he's now at work on his next thriller. Readers are invited to visit his website,
www.greggolsen.com
.
bestselling author G
REGG
O
LSEN
has written more than twenty books. As a journalist and true-crime author, Olsen has received numerous awards and much critical acclaim for his writing. He's been a guest on
Good Morning, America
,
Dateline
,
CBS Early Show
,
Entertainment Tonight
,
48 Hours
, and news programs on CNN and Fox, as well as other national and international TV programs. The Seattle native and his wife live in rural Washington State, where he's now at work on his next thriller. Readers are invited to visit his website,
www.greggolsen.com
.
PINNACLE BOOKS are published by
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
119 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018
119 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018
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Copyright © 2015 Gregg Olsen
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher, excepting brief quotes used in reviews.
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If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”
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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.
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ISBN: 978-0-7860-2996-9
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First electronic edition: December 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-2995-2
ISBN-10: 0-7860-2995-1
ISBN-10: 0-7860-2995-1
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