Meet Me in Venice (2007)
““You’ll have to go to the police,” he said. “Tell them you were supposed to meet your cousin here, and that you think the body might be hers.” His eyes met hers. “They’ll want you to identify it.”
Preshy gasped, horrified. “But I’ve never met her. I can’t identify her, I don’t even know what she looks like.”
“Her passport will be at the desk, or in her room.” He didn’t add that anyhow a drowned woman who’d been in the water for any length of time would be bloated beyond all recognition and woul...d look nothing like her passport photo, and that fingerprints and dental records might be the clincher on her identity.
Preshy’s hand shook as she poured a glass of water from a half-empty bottle of San Pellegrino. It was warm and flat and she wrinkled her nose in distaste.
“There’ll be an autopsy immediately, of course,” Sam said. “To establish the cause of death. Then the body will be released. To you,” he added.
Preshy put her head in her hands. She would have to identify the body, take care of everything, send Lily home to be buried.MoreLess
Preshy gasped, horrified. “But I’ve never met her. I can’t identify her, I don’t even know what she looks like.”
“Her passport will be at the desk, or in her room.” He didn’t add that anyhow a drowned woman who’d been in the water for any length of time would be bloated beyond all recognition and woul...d look nothing like her passport photo, and that fingerprints and dental records might be the clincher on her identity.
Preshy’s hand shook as she poured a glass of water from a half-empty bottle of San Pellegrino. It was warm and flat and she wrinkled her nose in distaste.
“There’ll be an autopsy immediately, of course,” Sam said. “To establish the cause of death. Then the body will be released. To you,” he added.
Preshy put her head in her hands. She would have to identify the body, take care of everything, send Lily home to be buried.MoreLess
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