Body of Truth (2012)
“Not that the sight of blood or gore fazed him. He’d been a cop long enough to have gotten over any innate squeamishness he might have possessed. But folks who made a career out of poking around in dead people’s insides had to be one step up from crazy.
Jonathan parked in the small lot at the back of the building and got out of the car. Heat rushed up at him from the pavement. This day threatened to be as much of a scorcher as the day before. Mari came up beside him as he retrieved his jacket fr...om the back seat and put it on.
“Ready to meet the relative?”
Jonathan snorted. Seymour Banks, Amanda Pierce’s only living relative, had been met at LaGuardia airport by a black-and-white unit, supposedly as a courtesy to the bereaved. In truth, Jonathan wanted to get a bead on the man when he viewed his sister’s body. Distance preventing him from seeing first-hand Banks’s reaction to the news Pierce had been killed, as he would have liked. Without intending to, people gave away a lot about themselves by the way they reacted to the news, sometimes their own culpability.MoreLess
Jonathan parked in the small lot at the back of the building and got out of the car. Heat rushed up at him from the pavement. This day threatened to be as much of a scorcher as the day before. Mari came up beside him as he retrieved his jacket fr...om the back seat and put it on.
“Ready to meet the relative?”
Jonathan snorted. Seymour Banks, Amanda Pierce’s only living relative, had been met at LaGuardia airport by a black-and-white unit, supposedly as a courtesy to the bereaved. In truth, Jonathan wanted to get a bead on the man when he viewed his sister’s body. Distance preventing him from seeing first-hand Banks’s reaction to the news Pierce had been killed, as he would have liked. Without intending to, people gave away a lot about themselves by the way they reacted to the news, sometimes their own culpability.MoreLess
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