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Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers - both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm - are brutally killed on the same night. It doesnt leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her best-friend Mavis but thats supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis needs another favour. Tandy Willowby one of the mothers-to-be in Maviss birthing class didnt show up for the shower. Having only recently arrived from London Tandy has few friends in New York and no family - and she was really looking forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandys apartment and finds a gift for Mavis wrapped and ready on the table - and a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it she realises something is wrong. Normally such a case would
be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis asks for Eves - and she cant say no. Shell have to track Tandy down while simultaneously investigating the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the citys richest and most secretive citizens in a race against this particularly vicious killer.

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Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers
- both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm
- are brutally killed on the same night. It doesnt leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her best-friend Mavis but thats supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis needs another favour. Tandy Willowby one of the mothers-to-be in Maviss birthing class didnt show up for the shower. Having only recently arrived from London Tandy has few friends in New York & no family
- & she was really looking forward to the party. & when Eve enters Tandys apartment & finds a gift for Mavis wrapped & ready on the table
- & a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it she realises something is wrong. Normally such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis asks for Eves
- & she cant say no. Shell have to track Tandy down while simultaneously investigating the deals & double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the citys richest & most secretive citizens in a race against this particularly vicious killer.

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