Live to Tell

  HOLDER

  Yo. We got here first.

  SARAH

  Yeah and we don’t got a body.

  HOLDER

  Not yet.

  Sarah, impatient, checks her watch.

  SARAH

  You wanna follow it up, go for it.

  HOLDER

  You’re my ride, Linden.

  SARAH

  So, I’ll drop you off at the station, I need to finish packing up–

  HOLDER

  I thought you were done.

  (off her look)

  Flight’s not til nine, right? I won’t let you miss it. Promise.

  Holder grins, walks ahead.

  HOLDER (CONT’D)

  Let’s have a talk with this Stanley Larsen.

  Sarah clocks something on the back of his neck, peeking above his collar: a TATTOO. The top of an ornate CRUCIFIX. Sarah, curious, follows.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  LISA GARDNER is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, including Live to Tell, The Neighbor, and Say Goodbye. She lives with her husband and daughter in New England. She is currently at work on her next Detective D.D. Warren thriller, which Bantam will publish in 2011.

  Live to Tell is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2010 by Lisa Gardner, Inc.

  All rights reserved.

  Excerpt From Love You More

  Copyright © 2010 by Lisa Gardner, Inc.

  Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  BANTAM BOOKS and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Gardner, Lisa.

  Live to tell : a detective D.D. Warren novel / Lisa Gardner.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-553-90769-8

  I. Title.

  PS3557.A7132L58 2010

  813′.54—dc22 2010003473

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