Takeover (Theresa MacLean, Book 1) by Lisa Black

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By Lisa Black

In the culture of Kathy Reichs and Jeffery Deaver, a skilled novelist introduces a gutsy forensic investigator stuck in the course of an explosive crisis

Early one Thursday morning, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is termed to the scene of a ugly homicide. The physique of a guy has been discovered at the entrance garden of a home in suburban Cleveland, the again of his head bashed in. even if it isn't the simplest begin to her day, Theresa has been via worse. What unfolds throughout the subsequent 8 hours, even though, is not anything she may perhaps ever have imagined.

Downtown on the Federal Reserve financial institution, her police detective fiancé is taken hostage with six others in a theft masterminded by way of shrewdpermanent criminals. while she arrives on the scene, Theresa discovers that the police have introduced within the city's most sensible hostage negotiator: good-looking, high-profile Chris Cavanaugh. He hasn't misplaced a sufferer but, yet Theresa wonders if he will be too boastful to avoid wasting the day this time around.

When her fiancé is injured, she seizes the chance to alternate areas with him. as soon as at the within, she's going to use all her wiles, event, and technical talents to realize regulate of the location. yet what at the start seems to be a financial institution heist becomes whatever way more complicated and lethal, and Theresa needs to come to a decision how even more she is prepared to sacrifice that allows you to shop the lives of blameless humans in addition to her personal.

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Clear finger marks sprang to life; Theresa could only hope they belonged to the criminals. She concentrated, to keep herself from devolving into panic. “It’s a Federal Reserve bank. It’s like a bank for banks. ” She noted her coworker’s raised eyebrows. ” “I guess so. ” The young officer returned; her body appeared fit, but her face flushed red from the heat, and she had used the short trip to her vehicle to snag a bottle of water. She offered her own theory: “Maybe they meant to, and then they got the wrong building.

Then the guy moved away, and the older black man next to Paul let out a relieved breath. So far, so good. Stay calm and stay alive. Of course, if they found out he was a cop, staying calm would not save him. Armed robbers didn’t like surprises, and they’d already had a number that morning. They must have expected the Fed to be like a neighborhood bank, with the cash at the forefront, physically present for the grabbing. Paul couldn’t blame them for their mistake; he also wondered why there’d been no one working at the antique teller windows.

You and me both,” Paul assured her. They turned as a patrol car pulled alongside the curb and stopped. A young man in uniform ducked under the ribbon of crime-scene tape and came up the twenty-foot driveway, sheaf of papers in hand. “You get your wish, Tess,” Frank said before reading the search warrant to the empty house, a process required by law but absurd in practice. The cream-colored siding gave no sign of listening. While he spoke, Theresa crossed the grass to retrieve her small Maglite from the county station wagon and returned to the porch.

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