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Jeffrey Deaver Ц The Empty Chair
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Date: 22 August 2002

NOVA Scans so far:
01. A.J Quinnell - Man on Fire
02. Clive Cussler - Vixen 03
03. Nick Hornby - How to be Good
04. Locks Picks & Clicks
05. Jeffrey Deaver Ц The Empty Chair
06. Kim Stanley Robinson Ц The Years of Rice and Salt (in Progress 22 Aug 2002)


Jeffrey Deaver Ц The Empty Chair

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She came here to lay flowers at the place where the boy died and the girl was kidnapped.

She came here because she was a heavy girl and had a pocked face and not many friends.

She came because she was expected to.

She came because she wanted to.

Ungainly and sweating, twenty-six-year-old Lydia Johansson walked along the dirt
shoulder of Route 112, where she'd parked her Honda Accord, then stepped carefully
down the hill to the muddy bank where Blackwater Canal met the opaque Paquenoke
River.

She came here because she thought it was the right thing to do.

She came even though she was afraid.

It wasn't long after dawn but this August had been the hottest in years in North Carolina
and Lydia was already sweating through her nurse's whites by the time she started
toward the clearing on the riverbank, surrounded by willows and tupelo gum and
broad-leafed bay trees. She easily found the place she was looking for; the yellow police
tape was very evident through the haze.

Early morning sounds. Loons, an animal foraging in the thick brush nearby, hot wind
through sedge and swamp grass.

Lord, I'm scared, she thought. Flashing back vividly on the most gruesome scenes from the
Stephen King and Dean Koontz novels she read late at night with her companion, a pint of
Ben & Jerry's.
More noises in the brush. She hesitated, looked around. Then continued on.