Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

torture kittens for fun?”
    “I’m not laughing.”
    “You said it earlier. I’m not the one on trial.”
    “No, but they’ll try to make it about you. Whether you hate cops. Whether you have a hidden agenda. We could lose this case if that jury thinks you’re not on the level. So tell me if there’s anything else they might bring up. Any secrets that you haven’t mentioned to me.”
    Maura considered the private embarrassments that she guarded. The illicit affair that she’d just ended. Her family’s history of violence. “Everyone has secrets,” she said. “Mine aren’t relevant.”
    “Let’s hope not,” said Aguilar.

Vanish
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events,
locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    Copyright © 2005 by Tess Gerritsen
    Excerpt from The Silent Girl copyright © 2011 by Tess Gerritsen.
    All rights reserved.
    Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
    B ALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Gerritsen, Tess.
    Vanish: a novel / Tess Gerritsen.
    p. cm.
    1. Rizzoli, Jane, Detective (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police—
Massachusetts—Boston—Fiction. 3. Boston (Mass.)—Fiction.
4. Conspiracies—Fiction. 5. Policewomen—Fiction. I. Title.
    PS3557.E687V36 2005
    813′.54—dc22 2005048073
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    This book contains an excerpt from The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.
    eISBN: 978-0-345-48475-8
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