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Authors: Jane Haddam
Death's Savage Passion (27 page)
Out on the drive, Mother started gesturing, moving her arms in great arcs, as if she were guiding an ocean liner into port.
“Christ,” I said, “hardly even parked, and already she’s at it.”
“She’s just glad to see you, Patience.”
I gave Phoebe my best look ever, the kind I’d always wished I could visit on my mother. Then I shoved my pack of cigarettes into my jacket pocket and jumped out of the Jeep.
“I just got here,” I said as I hit the ground. “Give me half a second to get myself together, will you please?”
Mother looked me up and down, back and forth, the way she always does when she hasn’t seen me in a while—meaning for more than fifteen minutes. Then she said, “I don’t have time to indulge your dallying, Patience. I need your help. I have a dead body in my living room, and it’s already been there for
six hours.”
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