He tipped his head back, closed his eyes, and
let
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bags the tension shiver out of him.
After a while, he
considered turning on the radio to pass the time until Hazard arrived. Sheryl
Crow, Barenaked Ladies, Chris Isaak, without orchestral strings and timpanis and
French horns, might mellow his mood.
He was reluctant to click the
switch. He suspected that instead of the usual music, news, and
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handbags talk shows, he would discover, from one end of the dial to
the other, only the voice that might be Hannah’s, futilely trying to speak to
him on every frequency.
Knuckles on glass—tap-tap-tap—startled him.
Wearing a rolled seaman’s cap and a scowl to curdle vinegar, Hazard Yancy peered
through the passenger’s window.
Ethan unlocked the doors.
Filling the
chanel bags outlet SUV as fully
as he might have filled a bumper car at a carnival, Hazard climbed into the
front passenger’s seat and pulled the door shut. Although he had more knees than
knee space, he didn’t adjust the power controls to move the seat back. He seemed
nervous. “They find Dunny?”
“Who?”
“The hospital.”
“No.”
“Then why’re you here?”
“I
ugg boots
clearance talked to the doctor who signed the death certificate,
trying to figure it out.”
“You get anywhere?”
“Right back where
I started—lookin’ up my own ass.”
“Not a view that’ll draw tourists,”
Hazard said. “Sam Kesselman has the flu.”
Ethan needed Kesselman—the
detective assigned to the ormolu-lamp murder of Rolf Reynerd’s mother—to read
Reynerd’s unfinished [376] screenplay and then
chanel
handbags outlet to track down the real-life inspiration for the
murderous professor depicted in its pages.
“When’s he back on the job?”
Ethan asked.
“His wife says he can’t even keep chicken soup on his
stomach. Looks like we won’t see him till after Christmas.”
“Anybody
partners with him?”