When artist, Nicole Jeffords, learns that a reputable psychic who often works with the police has had a vision that the remains of a fifty-year-old male may be buried under an artist's studio in Austin, she becomes convinced that the studio in quest...
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I was pulled in all directions and never had a chance to spend a good amount of time with anyone. These four things stand out, however: 1) I had a brief conversation with Emil that went as follows:
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Nicole: Remember Victor Goodlove from all those years ago? What do you think happened to him?
Emil: Oh, no question. I think he was murdered.
Nicole: By whom?
Emil: Could have been one of those crazy people who was always stalking him. Could have been (he coughed, embarrassed) his landlady, Betsy Shapiro. He sure as hell had the goods on her. Could have been a family member – he had an older brother, Roy, who was very jealous of him.
2) I kept an eye on Caroline, wanting to see her reaction to my portrait of Victor, and to the portrait I'd quickly thrown together of her son, Mercer, that I'd placed on the opposite wall. (I placed Joe's portrait next to Mercer's – no resemblance whatsoever.)
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Josiah
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Mercer
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Victor
She peered at the three pictures and went white as a sheet, just as she had when she noticed Victor in the audience at the house concert years before.The next thing I saw was her back as she bolted from the party. Her husband, Joe, apologized, saying she'd been taken suddenly ill and not to worry, his driver would come pick him up later.
3) My friend, Peter Martino, approached me not long after Caroline fled the party to say he recognized her from her portrait, and knew for a fact that Victor had had an affair with her many years before.
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And 4) Gharith Pendragon, the psychic, who followed me out to my studio and told me, in no uncertain terms, that my life was in danger.
