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Category:
Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Merry Jones Reprint
ISBN-10: 0312356234
Type: Fiction
Pages: 342
Copyright: September, 2008
ISBN-13: 9781452483221
In this fourth fast-paced Zoe Hayes novel, Zoe is about to marry Detective Nick Stiles. Days before the wedding, a jogger turns up dead on her back patio. Nick's brothers, in town for the ceremony, are staying with Zoe, and she finds evidence that one of them is now who he pretends to be.
Meantime, her babysitter (Zoe is now the mother of two--Molly and baby Luke--and new puppy Oliver) has a breakdown; her wedding planner is attacked, and a psychotic former patient decides to come after her and her family. As the big day approaches, Zoe is caught in a web of spiraling danger and intrigue that threatens much more than just her wedding.
Excerpt
Oliver kept yipping, scratching at the glass of the sliding door. Maybe there was a squirrel out there. Or a cat. Or a UFO. I didn't care; I just wasnt it to leave so Oliver would quiet down. But he didn't. His high-pitched barks persisted. Finally, I'd had it. Unable to stand the yipping any more, I opened my eyes and shouted, "Oliver, no!"
He stopped barking and looked at me, head tilted, baffled, clearly wondering what was wrong with me. How could I just sit there? Then he turned back to the door and barked. I followed his gaze, saw no movement. No rodent. No feline. Nothing. And still, he barked.
"Oliver," I commanded. "Enough. Shut up."
Deliberately, I leaned back and shut my eyes. If I ignored him, he'd eventually quiet down. But my mind must have unconsciously registered some abnormal detail, because without knowing why, I sat up and took another, more careful look at the sliding door. And there, on the concrete, on the right side of the glass, I saw something that made no sense. Something that simply couldn't be there. Something that looked like five pink toes.
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