Twisted

Informationen zum Autor Laura Griffin is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tracers series, the Wolfe Sec series, the Alpha Crew series, the Texas Murder Files series, and several other novels, including Last Seen Alone . A two-time RITA Award winner and the recipient of the Daphne du Maurier Award, Laura lives in Austin. Visit her at LauraGriffin.com, and on Facebook at Facebook.com/LauraGriffinAuthor. Klappentext Motive! opportunity! and no alibiNdetective Allison Doyle knows it's as close to a slam dunk as most investigations get. But even though her small-town Texas police department has identified a prime suspect in a young woman's vicious murder! she can't rest easy. And when legendary FBI profiler Mark Wolfe shows up with a startling new theory! all her doubts are amplified. Original. Twisted CHAPTER 1 The day Jordan Wheatley last ran free was clear and bright, like her sixteenth birthday. Like her wedding day. Like 9/11. She’d overdressed that afternoon in sweatpants and a long-sleeved T-shirt, and she came off the trail with her face dripping and her ponytail saturated. She reached into her car for a tall bottle of water, guzzled most of it down, and poured the few remaining ounces over her head. Jordan checked the timer on her watch. Ninety-seven minutes. That extra two miles was going to make her late getting home, and Ethan would be in a sulk. She needed to hurry. First, though, she tipped her head back to gaze at the sky and took a moment to just be. The late-afternoon sun touched her cheeks. She inhaled the crisp fall breeze, tinged with cedar. The runner’s high thrummed in her veins and her muscles felt loose. She could do anything. Everything. She could run the whole course all over again, right this minute if she wanted to. But Ethan was waiting. She checked her watch again and tossed the empty bottle into the car. “Hey, you wouldn’t happen to have a phone, would you?” Jordan turned around and saw a young man standing beside a green minivan several spaces away. She glanced over her shoulder to see if he was talking to someone else. “It’s the battery again.” He smiled. “My wife’s going to kill me this time—she told me to get it changed.” When Jordan hesitated, his expression turned wary. “But looks like you’re in a hurry. You probably don’t have time to play Good Samaritan, do you?” She stepped forward. “No, it’s all right.” Then she remembered what he’d asked for and reached back into her car. Her cell phone was locked in the glove compartment, and she dug it out. “You want me to call Triple A or . . . ?” He sauntered over. “Thanks, but I’ll do it.” She surveyed him more carefully now, feeling odd about handing over her phone to a complete stranger, even a nice-looking one. He was tall, dark-haired, and had wire-rimmed glasses. He wore faded jeans and a Rice University sweatshirt with the familiar blue crest on the front. Jordan passed him the phone. “I’ve actually got a favorite mechanic, if you can believe it. He specializes in German cars, but he owes me a favor, so . . .” He dialed a number with his thumb and pressed the phone to his ear, and Jordan turned around, pretending not to eavesdrop. She wiped the sweat from her brow with the back of her arm. In the distance she heard a pair of high-pitched barks as some dogs encountered each other on the trail. “No answer. Damn. You have any jumper cables?” He smiled hopefully. “’Fraid not.” He sighed and looked around at the surrounding scenery—canyons, hills, and scrub brush as far as the eye could see. “So, what do you think the odds are we’ll be able t...

Product details

• Authors: Laura Griffin
• Publisher: Pocket Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9781451617375
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-1737-5
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 172 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Pocket Books; Pocket Star Books; Tracers; Tracers
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense