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Hanna looked very pale, and was staring off beyond the adjacent wall, to some point known only to her. She was breathing rapidly, and shallowly as if she’d been crying. “She’s a witness?” If you don’t ask the obvious, things can get by you quicker than you’d think. Besides, it wasn’t the first time I’d had two people with the same first name in a house.

“Yes. Hanna here found her, and called us.” Just like Toby said, downstairs. Good. Eunice squeezed Hanna’s shoulders. “It’ll be all right, honey.”

I leaned toward the seated figure. She seemed stunned. “I’m sorry, Hanna, but I’ll have to talk to you before I go.” She nodded.

I went past her, into a bedroom that had to be at least twenty-five feet by twenty. I could see Borman’s back, and most of Herb Balk, also an EMT, standing in an adjoining room that appeared to be a bath.

“What’ve you got?” I asked.

Borman turned, very somber, and said, “A real mess. A real mess. Looks like a suicide, but I’ve never seen one like this.”

THE BIG THAW

A Bantam Book

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Copyright © 2000 by Donald Harstad.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Other Books By This Author

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Chapter One - Monday, January 12, 1998, 2309

Chapter Two - Tuesday, January 13, 1998, 0004

Chapter Three - Tuesday, January 13, 1998, 0018

Chapter Four - Tuesday, January 13, 1998, 0057

Chapter Five - Tuesday, January 13, 1998, 0123

Chapter Six - Tuesday, January 13, 1998, 0758

Chapter Seven - Tuesday, January 13, 1998, 1248

Chapter Eight - Tuesday, January 13, 1998, 1750

Chapter Nine - Wednesday, January 14, 1998, 0907

Chapter Ten - Wednesday, January 14, 1998, 1708

Chapter Eleven - Wednesday, January 14, 1998, 2125

Chapter Twelve - Wednesday, January 14, 1998, 2337

Chapter Thirteen - Thursday, January 15, 1998, 0200

Chapter Fourteen - Thursday, January 15, 1998, 0923

Chapter Fifteen - Thursday, January 15, 1998, 1520

Chapter Sixteen - Thursday, January 15, 1998, 1737

Chapter Seventeen - Thursday, January 15, 1998, 1848

Chapter Eighteen - Friday, January 16, 1998, 0802

Chapter Nineteen - Friday, January 16, 1998, 1354

Chapter Twenty - Friday, January 16, 1998, 1717

Chapter Twenty-one - Saturday, January 17, 1998, 0714

Chapter Twenty-two - Saturday, January 17, 1998, 1358

Chapter Twenty-three - Sunday, January 18, 1998, 0942

Chapter Twenty-four - Sunday, January 18, 1998, 1018

Chapter Twenty-five - Sunday, January 18, 1998, 1221

Chapter Twenty-six - Sunday, January 18, 1998, 1316

Chapter Twenty-seven - Sunday, January 18, 1998, 1419

Chapter Twenty-eight - Sunday, January 18, 1998, 1506

Chapter Twenty-nine - Sunday, January 18, 1998, 1647

Chapter Thirty - Sunday, January 18, 1998, 1701

Epilogue

Glossary

Some Useful “Ten Codes”

About the Author

Copyright