Brazen Virtue

Zusatztext Praise for Nora Roberts   “Her stories have fueled the dreams of twenty-five million readers.” — Entertainment Weekly “Roberts is indeed a word artist, painting her stories and her characters with vitality and verve.” —Los Angeles Daily News “You can’t bottle wish-fulfillment, but Nora Roberts certainly knows how to put it on the page.” — The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Nora Roberts was the first writer to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. The New York Times bestselling author of such novels as Sweet Revenge and Divine Evil , she has become one of today’s most successful and best-loved writers. Nora Roberts lives with her family in Maryland. Klappentext From New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel that explores the dangerous side of desire, when a mystery writer in search of a little peace and quiet instead finds herself ensnared in the world of a real-life serial killer whose craving for murder stops at nothing . . . and no one. After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, who's embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacher's salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator. According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts-which are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.'s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isn't fiction. Real people die-and Grace could be next. For she's hoping to trap a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death. Leseprobe 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 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 briefca...

Product details

• Authors: Nora Roberts
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.11.2011
• EAN: 9780553386455
• ISBN: 978-0-553-38645-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 204 mm x 17 mm
• Series: D.C. Detectives; D.C. Detectives
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature