Eleventh Hour

Zusatztext "VINTAGE COULTER: exciting! enthralling and totally mesmerizing." - BookBrowser "Fast-paced romantic [and] suspenseful." - Booklist Informationen zum Autor Catherine Coulter is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the FBI Thrillers featuring husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. She is also the author—with J. T. Ellison—of the Brit in the FBI series. She lives in Sausalito, California. Klappentext When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation. Then Nicola "Nick" Jones, a homeless woman and the only witness to the shooting, is scared out of her mind because she's trying to hide from her own monsters-who are drawing closer and closer. The chase goes from San Francisco to the Premiere Studios in Los Angeles and its new television hit, a show all about murder. S A N F R A N C I S C O Nick sat quietly in the midnight gloom of the nave, hunched forward, her head in her arms resting on the pew in front of her. She was here because Father Michael Joseph had begged her to come, had begged her to let him help her. The least she could do was talk to him, couldn’t she? She’d wanted to come late, when everyone else was already home asleep, when the streets were empty, and he’d agreed, even smiled at her. He was a fine man, kind and loving toward his fellow man and toward God. Would she wait? She sighed at the thought. She’d given her word, he’d made her give her word, known somehow that it would keep her here. She watched him walk over to the confessional, watched with surprise as his step suddenly lagged, and he paused a moment, his hand reaching for the small handle on the confessional door. He didn’t want to open that door, she thought, staring at him. He 18882_ch01.qxd 4/15/03 5:19 AM Page 1 didn’t want to go in. Then, at last, he seemed to straighten, opened the door and stepped inside. Again, there was utter silence in the big church. The air itself seemed to settle after Father Michael Joseph stepped into that small confined space. The deep black shadows weren’t content to fill the corners of the church, they even crept down the center aisle, and soon she was swallowed up in them. There was a patch of moonlight coming through the tall stained-glass windows. It should have been peaceful, but it didn’t feel that way. There was something else in the church, something that wasn’t restful, that wasn’t remotely spiritual. She fidgeted in the silence. She heard one of the outer church doors open. She turned to see the man who was going to make his midnight confession walk briskly into the church. He looked quite ordinary, slender, with a long Burberry raincoat and thick dark hair. She watched him pause, look right and left, but he didn’t see her, she was in the shadows. She watched him walk to the confessional where Father Michael Joseph waited, watched him open the confessional door and slip inside. Again, silence and shadows hovered around her. She was part of the shadows now, looking out toward the confessional from the dim, vague light. She heard nothing. How long did a confession take? Being a Protestant, she had no idea. There must be, she thought, some correlation between the number and severity of the sins and the length of the confession. She started to smile at that, but it quickly fell away. She felt a rush of cold air over her, covering her for a long moment before it moved on. How very odd, she thought, and pulled her sweater tighter around her. She looked again at the altar, perhaps seeking inspiration, some sort of sign, and felt ridiculous. After Father Michael Joseph had finished, what was she supposed to do? Let him take her hand in his b...

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Catherine Coulter

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"VINTAGE COULTER: exciting, enthralling and totally mesmerizing." -BookBrowser"Fast-paced romantic [and] suspenseful." -Booklist

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• Authors: Catherine Coulter
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.06.2003
• EAN: 9780515135732
• ISBN: 978-0-515-13573-2
• No. of pages: 347
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 172 mm x 24 mm
• Series: FBI Thriller; An FBI Thriller; FBI Thriller; Penguin Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature