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I don’t think she believed us, though

"But she was fine at the party last night," Alish accent, she pronounced it pahty "She was fine!"

"What party?" I asked, bewildered

This only set Ameera off into a fresh fit of hysterics, for so that I’d made a new discovery:

It’s sometimes preferable to sit with the corpse of a student than to be in the coht: this job has hardened irl who’s supposed to be getting married in a month

I tried not to dwell on this, however

Death certificates can’t be issued for anyone who dies suddenly (and unattended by a physician) in New York State unless that body has first been seen by an MLI (then brought to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner--OCME)

Due to budget cuts, however, there are only a few MLIs assigned to each borough, so depending on how iven day, it can take anywhere froht hours (soator to show up after a death has been reported

It took almost four hours for an MLI to show up to exa the afternoon hanging around with a bunch of yawning cops and uptight ads turned out this ti a VIR, and the deceased lived one floor below him And one of the first phone calls Dr Jessupabout Jasmine’s death appears to have been to Prince Rashid’s special protection teaation

"ID, please" Special Agent Richard Lancaster, who looks devastatingly handsome in his dark suit and tie (not that I’ve noticed, since I’ed woman), steps in front of the door to Jase hand

At least, it intiator Eva Kovalenko, not so ent asked to see so much more intimate than a mere ID

"Who the hell are you," Eva de at ent Lancaster corrects her