"Roberts, Nora - DC Detectives 02 - Brazen Virtue" - читать интересную книгу автора (Roberts Nora)

He had to meet her. And soon.

Chapter 1
The plane banked over the Lincoln
Memorial. Grace had her briefcase open
on her lap. There were a dozen things to be packed
away, but she stared out the window, pleased to see the
ground rushing up toward her. There was nothing, as far
as she was concerned, that was quite the same as flying.
The plane was late. She knew that because the man
across from her in seat 3B kept complaining about it.
Grace was tempted to reach across the aisle and pat
his hand, to assure him that ten minutes in the scheme
of things really didn't matter so much. But he
didn't look as though he would appreciate the
sentiment.

Kathleen would be complaining too, she thought. Not
out loud or anything, Grace mused as she smiled
and settled back for the landing. Kathleen might have
been just as irritated as 3B, but she would never
have been rude enough to mumble and moan.

If Grace knew her sister, and she did,
Kathleen would have left home over an hour before,
making certain to take into consideration the
unpredictability of Washington traffic.
Grace had heard the note in Kathleen's
voice betraying her annoyance with Grace 5
that she'd chosen a flight that would arrive at
six-fifteen, the height of rush hour. With
twenty minutes to spare, Kathleen would have parked
her car in the short-term lot, rolled up the
windows, locked the doors, and made her way,
without being tempted by the shops, to the gate. She would
never have gotten lost or mixed the numbers up in
her mind.
Kathleen was always early. Grace was always
late. That was nothing new.

Still she hoped, really hoped, there could be some
common ground between them now. Sisters they were, but
they had rarely understood each other.

The plane bumped to earth and Grace began
tossing whatever came to hand into her briefcase.
Lipstick tumbled in with matchbooks, pens with
tweezers. That was something else a woman as
organized as Kathleen would never understand. A
place for everything. Grace agreed in