Long Gone. Alafair Burke
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Название: Long Gone
Автор: Alafair Burke
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Триллеры
isbn: 9781847562623
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Chapter Twenty-Nine
Only forty miles of road separated Dover, New Jersey, from…
Chapter Thirty
“Fuck, I feel guilty. I sat here and bitched for…
Chapter Thirty-One
Hank Beckman felt like a dying man who had planned…
Chapter Thirty-Two
There was a time when the Upper East Side was…
Chapter Thirty-Three
It had been five days since Becca Stevenson had disappeared,…
Chapter Thirty-Four
“Now we’re at the height of our practice. Trikonasana, triangle…
Chapter Thirty-Five
Alice tried to make herself small inside the tiny alcove…
Chapter Thirty-Six
Hank Beckman popped his third Advil in as many hours.
Chapter Thirty-Seven
It was Alice’s second trip to the Upper East Side,…
Chapter Thirty-Eight
“This might have been a bad idea.”
Chapter Thirty-Nine
“Good to see you again, Morhart.”
Chapter Forty
Even in better days, Alice felt an intense irritation navigating…
Chapter Forty-One
“Holy shit, you actually picked up your phone.”
Chapter Forty-Two
Alice rose from damp moss beneath a towering mulberry tree,…
Chapter Forty-Three
The next time she opened her eyes, she felt groggy.
Part III: Memories
Chapter Forty-Four
Joann Stevenson hit the play button once again on her…
Chapter Forty-Five
Alice maintained a brisk but unexceptional pace down Second Avenue…
Chapter Forty-Six
As Alice watched clumps of hair fall from the scissor…
Chapter Forty-Seven
Alice caught a glimpse of her own reflection in the…
Chapter Forty-Eight
Just as Beckman had predicted, they pulled off 684 at…
Chapter Forty-Nine
“Don’t you need a search warrant or something?”
Chapter Fifty
Joann Stevenson felt like the wind had been knocked out…
Chapter Fifty-One
The home in which Christie Kinley had supposedly passed away…
Chapter Fifty-Two
They were back at their motel outside White Plains, strategizing…
Chapter Fifty-Three
It was nearly four o’clock, and Jason was still pissed…
Part IV: Mia
Chapter Fifty-Four
Alice’s disposable phone rang at 5:58 p.m. She recognized her…
Chapter Fifty-Five
Alice tapped her nails against Hank Beckman’s steering wheel, trying…
Chapter Fifty-Six
For two hours, she and Arthur had waited in Arthur’s…
Chapter Fifty-Seven
“I’d have to say this has been a much more…
Chapter Fifty-Eight
Jason Morhart managed to cram his truck into the hybrid-sized…
Chapter Fifty-Nine
“This is certainly a lovely treat.” Arthur Cronin was inspecting…
Epilogue
Alice was panting by the time she reached her turnoff…
Acknowledgments
A Special Note of Thanks
Winning: Alafair Burke
About the Author
Other Books by Alafair Burke
PROLOGUE: THE KISS
Alice Humphrey knew the kiss would ruin everything.
“You’ve heard what they say about pictures and a thousand words.”
She looked up at the man—Shannon was his last name, the first hadn’t registered. He was the one with the faded, reddish blond hair. Ruddy skin. Puffy, like a drinker.
She didn’t like sitting beneath his eye level like this. In this tiny chair at her kitchen table, she felt small. Trapped. She mentally retraced her steps into the apartment, wondering if the seating arrangement had been planned for catastrophic effect.
Shannon and his partner—was it Danes?—had been waiting on the sidewalk outside her building. The two of them hunched in their coats and scarves, coffee cups in full-palmed grips to warm their hands, everything about their postures hinting at an invitation out of the cold. She, by contrast, hot and damp inside the fleece she had pulled on after spin class. She’d crossed her arms in front of her, trying to seal the warmth in her core as they spoke on the street, the perspiration beginning to feel clammy on her exposed face.
Shannon’s eyes darted between the keys in her hands and the apartment door before he finally voiced the suggestion: “Can we maybe talk inside?”
Friendly. Polite. Deferential. The way it had been with them yesterday morning. Only a day ago. About thirty-one hours, to be precise. They’d said at the time СКАЧАТЬ