The Sleeping Doll

Kellogg got off the hook on the Pell killing, which was a possibility, she wouldn’t let the matter rest there. She’d pursue the case against him in other venues.
    And apparently she wasn’t going to do it alone.
    “Good,” O’Neil said. “Let’s get together tomorrow and look over the evidence.”
    She nodded.
    The detective finished the beer and got another one. “I don’t suppose Overby’d spring for a trip to L.A.”
    “Believe it or not, I think he would.”
    “Really?”
    “If we fly coach.”
    “And standby,” O’Neil added.
    They laughed.
    “Any requests?” She tapped the old Martin, which resounded like a crisp drum.
    “Nope.” He leaned back and stretched his scuffed shoes out in front of him. “Whatever you’re in the mood for.”
    Kathryn Dance thought for a moment and began to play.

A UTHOR ’ S N OTE
    The California Bureau of Investigation, within the state’s Attorney General’s Office, does indeed exist, and I hope the dedicated men and women of that fine organization will forgive me for taking the liberty of reorganizing it some, and creating an office on the picturesque Monterey Peninsula. I’ve tinkered a bit too with the excellent Monterey County Sheriff’s Office.
    Similarly, I trust the residents of Capitola, near Santa Cruz, will forgive my plopping a fictional superprison down in their midst.
    Those interested in the topics of kinesics and interrogation and wishing to read further might enjoy the books I’ve found extremely helpful and which sit prominently on Kathryn Dance’s and my bookshelves: Principles of Kinesic Interview and Interrogation and The Truth about Lying , Stan B. Walters; Detecting Lies and Deceit , Aldert Vrij; The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception , Roger W. Shuy; Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation , David E. Zulawski and Douglas E. Wicklander; What the Face Reveals , eds. Paul Ekman and Erika Rosenberg; Reading People , Jo-Ellan Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella; Introduction to Kinesics: An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gestures , R. L. Birdwhitsell (the dancer turned anthropologist credited with coining the term “kinesics”).
    And thanks, as always, to Madelyn, Julie, Jane, Will and Tina.

© CHARLES HARRIS / CORBIS
    JEFFERY DEAVER is the international bestselling author of the acclaimed detective Lincoln Rhyme series and numerous stand-alone thrillers; Kathryn Dance returns in his newest novel, Roadside Crosses. Nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Readers Award for Best Short Story of the Year, and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. He has also won a Steel Dagger and a Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers’ Association. His novel The Cold Moon won a Grand Prix from the Japanese Adventure Fiction Association and was named Book of the Year by the Mystery Writers Association of Japan. A former attorney, Deaver has been hailed as “the best psychological thriller writer around” ( The Times , London). Visit www.jefferydeaver.com .

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    Carte Blanche
    Edge
    The Burning Wire*
    Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (Editor)
    The Watch List ( The Copper Bracelet and
    The Chopin Manuscript ) (Contributor)
    Roadside Crosses **
    The Bodies Left Behind
    The Broken Window*
    The Sleeping Doll**
    More Twisted: Collected Stories, Volume Two
    The Cold Moon*/**
    The Twelfth Card*
    Garden of Beasts
    Twisted: Collected Stories
    The Vanished Man*
    The Stone Monkey*
    The Blue Nowhere
    The Empty Chair*
    Speaking in Tongues
    The Devil’s Teardrop
    The Coffin Dancer*
    The Bone Collector*
    A Maiden’s Grave
    Praying for Sleep
    The Lesson of Her Death
    Mistress of Justice
    Hard News
    Death of a Blue Movie Star
    Manhattan Is My Beat
    Hell’s Kitchen
    Bloody River Blues
    Shallow Graves
    A Century of Great Suspense Stories (Editor)
    A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime (Editor)
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Introduction)
    * Featuring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs
    ** Featuring Kathryn Dance

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