The Perfect Mask by Blake Pierce EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author: Blake Pierce
- Language: English
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Jessie Hunt walked down the hall slowly, taking deep breaths, hoping
they would calm her frayed nerves.
Normally, strolling down the main hall of LAPD’s downtown Central
Station from the main reception area to the bullpen—something she’d done
hundreds of times—wasn’t a source of anxiety. But this Monday morning
was different: this was her first day back in a month.
A lot had had changed since the last time she’d passed through these
doors. For one thing, back then, she hadn’t been married. For another, on her
last visit here, she’d only been a part-time consultant to the LAPD while also
working as an instructor at UCLA. Now she was consulting full-time for the
department.
And then there was the other professional change in her life. Their captain
at Central Station, Roy Decker, had recently been installed as interim LAPD
Chief of Police after the previous chief was ousted in a scandal. Decker’s
replacement to lead Central Station was none other than Jessie’s new
husband, Ryan Hernandez, formerly detective, now promoted to Captain.
Not only was he now running the station, he’d also been tasked with
supervising Homicide Special Section, or HSS, which operated out of
Central. It was LAPD’s elite investigative unit, which specialized in cases
that had high profiles or intense media scrutiny, often involving multiple
victims or serial killers. Ryan used to be its lead detective. Jessie was its
primary profiler. Now that Ryan was supervising the unit, he was technically
her boss. They had discussed that new normal in the abstract, but this was the
first day they’d have to deal with it up close.
But that wasn’t the only complication that involved family. The last time
Jessie was in the office, her younger sister, Hannah, had been applying to
culinary schools as part of her goal to become a chef. But even though it had
only been a little more than four weeks, that plan was history now. Hannah,
who had just turned eighteen, had recently announced that she wanted to
pursue a career in “law enforcement investigation.”
After getting over the initial whiplash, Jessie chose to be outwardly
supportive, deciding that opposing the plan would only harden Hannah’s
resolve. That was why she hadn’t objected to her sister spending her spring
break, which began today, working with Jessie’s best friend Katherine “Kat”
Gentry, a private detective. The plan was to let Hannah get a sense of the
daily grind of investigation. Secretly, Kat had promised Jessie that she
wouldn’t let her sister get anywhere near a dangerous situation.
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