Somebody Else's Music (2011)
“Liz Toliver recognized her on sight, in that short moment before Gregor realized she’d come up behind him. He’d just had time to push her away and into the arms of Jimmy Card when she vomited, a thick bulk of tan and pink spraying over the front of the man’s $2,000 sports jacket. For a moment, everything was totally insane—there was Liz, and Jimmy Card, and Mark, all of whom he knew, but there was also another woman, not the nurse, not the mother, a woman with good jewelry smelling just faintly... of alcohol. Gregor’s primary thought was of the integrity of the crime scene. He kept trying to herd the whole group back toward the house and as far away from the body as possible. Jimmy Card didn’t look as if he’d noticed that he’d been thrown up on. The woman with the jewelry was smoking a cigarette. Cigarettes were a disaster at crime scenes. Around them, dark was falling very fast. It had to be seven o’clock. Only Mark DeAvecca and the woman with the jewelry seemed to be keeping their heads, and Gregor thought the woman with the jewelry might have other reasons for staying calm.MoreLess
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