"Karin Slaughter - [Grant County 03] - A Faint Cold Fear" - читать интересную книгу автора (Slaughter Karin)

two weeks old, and Tessa had already left a
bag of Goobers to melt in the backseat and
spilled an orange Fanta on the carpet in the
front. Had Tessa not been nearly eight
months pregnant, Sara would have strangled her.
Sara asked, "What took you so long?"
"I had to pee."
"Again?"
"No, I just like being in the bathroom at the
damn Dairy Queen," Tessa snapped. She
fanned her hand in front of her face.
"Jesus, it's hot."
Sara kept her mouth shut as she turned up the
air-conditioning. As a doctor, she knew that
Tessa was merely a victim of her own
hormones, but there were times when Sara thought that the
best thing for all concerned would be to lock Tessa in
a box and not open it until they heard a baby
crying.
"That place was packed," Tessa managed
around a mouthful of chocolate syrup.
"Goddamn, shouldn't all those people be at church or
something?"
"H'm," Sara said.
"The whole place was filthy. Look at this
parking lot," Tessa said, swooping her spoon
in the air. "People just dump their trash here and don't
even care about who has to pick it up. Like they
think the trash fairy's gonna do it or 3
something."
Sara murmured some words of agreement, eating
her ice cream as Tessa continued a litany of
complaints about everyone in the Dairy Queen, from the
man who was talking on his cell phone to the woman
who waited in line for ten minutes and then couldn't
decide what she wanted when she got to the counter.
After a while Sara zoned out, staring at the parking
lot, thinking about the busy week she had ahead of
her.
Several years ago Sara had taken on the
part-time job of county coroner to help buy out her
retiring partner at the Heartsdale Children's
Clinic, and lately Sara's work at the morgue
was playing havoc with her schedule at the clinic.
Normally the county job did not require much of
Sara's time, but a court appearance had taken her
out of the clinic for two days last week, and she was
going to have to make up for it this week by putting in
overtime.
Increasingly, Sara's work at the morgue was