"Tanya Huff - Victoria Nelson - 04 - Blood Pact" - читать интересную книгу автора (Huff Tanya)
It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson
her mother had died.
Mrs. Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of
death was a heart attack, and that they'd be waiting for her to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral
arrangements. But what started as an all too normal personal tragedy soon became the most terrifying
case of
Vicki's career. For when Marjory Nelson's body mysteriously disappeared from the funeral home, Vicki,
her sometime lover and fellow investigator, vampire Henry
Fitzroy, and her former homicide squad partner, Detective-Sergeant Mike Celluci, realized that there
was something unnatural about her mother's demise. Vicki swore she'd find the culprit, and see that her
mother was properly laid to rest. But what she hadn't counted on was that someone at Queen's University
seemed determined to keep Mrs. Nelson on the job-alive or dead!
Copyright (c) 1993 by Tanya Huff.
All Rights Reserved. Cover art by John Jude Palencar. DAW Book Collectors No. 931.
If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this book may have been stolen
property and reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher. In such case neither the author nor the
publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book."
For Mrs. Mac, who helped me through a rough time without having a clue of what she was getting into
and never really got thanked. Thank you.
of his time and expertise.
First Printing, November 1993 8 9
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"Mrs. Simmons? It's Vicki Nelson calling; the private investigator from Toronto?" She paused and
considered how best to present the information. Oh, what the hell. . . "We've found your husband."
"Is he . . . alive?"
"Yes, ma'am, very much so. He's working as an insurance adjuster under the name Tom O'Conner."
"Don always works in insurance."
"Yes, ma'am, that's how we found him. I've just sent you a package, by courier, containing a copy of
everything we've discovered including a number of recent photographs-you should receive it before
noon tomorrow. The moment you call me with a positive ID, I'll take the information to the police and
they can pick him up."
"The police thought they found him once before- in Vancouver-but when they went to pick him up he
was gone."
"Well, he'll be there this time." Vicki leaned back in her chair, shoved her free hand up under the bottom
edge of her glasses and scrubbed at her eyes. In eight years with the Metropolitan Toronto Police and
nearly two years out on her own, she'd seen some real SOBs; SimmonsIO'Conner ranked right up there
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