Lessons of Her Death

Zusatztext “There is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver.”— San Jose Mercury News “A harrowing and substantial suspense thriller . . . Terror steadily accelerates in this page-turner until the final riveting secrets are revealed.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Jeffery Deaver is an internationally #1 bestselling author. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into twenty-five languages. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger, the Short Story Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Association, and the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Thriller of the Year and is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award for Best Short Story of the Year. He’s been nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in North Carolina. Klappentext From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels! soon to be an NBC series Bill Corde looks down at the face of the murdered girl and sees the horror of sudden death. He cannot know! as he stands there at the trampled! muddy scene beside the college girl's corpse! that his own life is about to slip into terror. He cannot know that everything he holds precious is about to shatter before his eyes. He cannot know that his career-and his family-are about to enter a new dimension of danger. For Bill Corde! the killer is everything he fears most. For Sarah! Bill's wild! learning-impaired daughter! trapped in a world of frustration and ridicule! he may be just the person she's been waiting for. Someone who understands her worries and loneliness. Someone who signs his notes "The Sunshine Man." Someone she can run away with-even a perfect stranger. PART ONE     Profile   With every passing mile her heart fled a little more.   The girl, nine years old, sat slumped in the front seat, rubbing her finger along the worn beige armrest. The slipstream from the open window laid a strip of blond hair across her face. She brushed it away and looked up at the unsmiling, gray-haired man of about forty. He drove carefully, with his eyes fixed beyond the long white nose of the car.   “Please,” the girl said.   “No.”   She put her hands into her lap.   Maybe when he stopped at a red light she would jump out.   Maybe if he slowed down just enough …   Would it hurt, she wondered, to leap from the car into the tall grass beside the road? She pictured herself tumbling through the green blades, feeling the cold sprinkle of dew on her face and hands.   But then what? Where would she run to?   The first click of the turn signal interrupted these thoughts and the girl jumped as if a gun had fired. The car slowed and rocked as it pulled into the driveway, aiming toward a low brick building. She realized that her last hope was gone.   The car eased to a stop, brakes squealing like a sob.   “Give me a kiss,” the man said, reaching over and pushing the buckle release. The seat belt retracted. She held on to the nylon like a lifeline.   “I don’t want to. Please.”   “Sarah.”   “Just for today? Please.”   “No.”   “Don’t leave me.”   “Out you go.”   “I’m not ready!”   “Do the best you can.”   “I’m scared.”   “There’s nothing to be—”   “Don’t leave me!”   “Look—” His voice grew stony. “I’m going to be right nearby. Just over at Blackfoot Pond. That’s hardly a mile away.”   Her inventory of excuses was depleted. Sarah opened the car door but remained sitting.   “Give me a kiss.”   She leaned over and kissed her father quickly on his cheek then climbed out of the car, standing in the cool spring air heavily scented with bus exhaust. She took three steps toward the building, watching the car pull out of the driveway. She thought suddenly about...

Product details

• Authors: Jeffery Deaver, Jeffrey Deaver
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1994
• EAN: 9780553560206
• ISBN: 978-0-553-56020-6
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 175 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense