By Laura Lippman
A consumer named Ruthie -- who turns out to grasp Tess's father a bit too good -- asks the newspaperwoman-turned-p.i. to enquire a year-old "Jane Doe" homicide and its grim aftermath. Ruthie's low-life brother, Henry, confessed to killing runaway over a bottle of glue -- and, a month into his criminal time period, he met a similar destiny as his sufferer. Following a important few tantalizing clues, Tess units off on a direction that's best her from Baltimore's unique internal Harbor to the city's seediest neighborhoods. yet it is the surprising discovery of the runaway's actual identification that turns her hunt lethal. without warning a supposedly solved homicide case is popping up more recent, brisker corpses and more moderen, scarier models of the Sugar condo -- locations that glance candy and safe...but merely from the skin.
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They were taking their seats when Crow arrived, breathing hard from his run through the neighborhood. 14 Normally given to exuberant, bear-hug greetings, he restrained himself and offered his hand, first to Spike, then to Patrick. Her father looked uncomfortable at even this brief contact. “I had no idea this was such a huge thing,” Crow said. ” “No South Baltimore politician with half a brain would dare miss it,” Patrick said. “State Senator Dahlgren’s already here, working the crowd. ” “Which is funny,” Spike said.
Tess glanced approvingly at him, forgetting for a moment the snarl of traffic that had them stuck on a ramp to the Jones Falls Expressway. She didn’t have a clue what he meant, but it held the promise of being diverting. For Crow, Baltimore was a second language—one he spoke exceedingly well, but with odd formalisms that gave the native new insights. “Keep going,” she encouraged him. “Well, it’s very good at dressing up for holidays, isn’t it, enthusiastic about the build-up. Look at all of us, in a traffic jam because we want to see the lights on Thirty-fourth Street in Hampden.
Don’t worry, he’ll find something. He’s part time at Aunt Kitty’s bookstore through Christmas, playing a few gigs around town. ” “An out-of-work musician,” her father mused. “Yeah, that’s what I envisioned the day you were born, honey. It’s what every father wants for his little girl, you know. Does he have a criminal record, too? ” Tess considered and rejected several replies. ” A volunteer, resplendent in a green and red double-knit pants suit, took their money and pointed them to four places at a long cafeteria table in the farthest corner of the parish hall.