Leverage in Death

“Life was easier when all I had to do was think about murder.” – Eve Dallas, Leverage in Death

Leverage in Death
Leverage in Death US Hardcover
Book Number	47
Release Date	September 4, 2018
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
ISBN	978-1250161567
Publication order
Previous	Dark in Death
Next	Connections in Death

Plot Summary

Lieutenant Eve Dallas puzzles over a bizarre suicide bombing in a Manhattan office building in the latest in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

What would you do to protect your family?

When Paul Rogan sets off a bomb at his office, killing eleven people, no one can understand why. He was a loving husband and father, with everything to live for. Then his wife and daughter are found chained up in the family home, and everything becomes clear. Rogan had been given a horrifying choice - set off the bomb, or see his loved ones suffer and die.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows the violence won't end here. The men behind the attack are determined, organized and utterly ruthless. In this shocking and challenging case, both Eve and husband Roarke are heading into serious danger.

Spoiler warning! This article contains plot details about an upcoming episode.

Timeline

Story Date: early March, 2061

Day 1 – Monday

Chapter 1

• Paul Rogan arrives at work, “Thou shalt not kill” pounding out a rhythm in his head, while a voice is speaking “Cecily. Melody” again and again. He walks into Quantum Air through the double glass door, which opens, splitting the logo’s whoosh in two, understanding what it means to be split in two. He brushes off his admin and locks himself in his office. He begs, bargains, pleads, and finally weeps. He then follows the instructions inside his head.
• At 8:56 he emerges from his office, and tells Rudy, his admin, that he’s been an asset to him and to Quantum Air. As he walks to the conference room for the big meeting at 9 a.m., he murmurs “Please stop.” Reps from EconoLift and from Quantum are seated at the long table, and Paul murmurs, “There needs to be another way,” earning him a quizzical look from another exec.
• At 9 sharp, the president and CEO of Quantum, Derrick Pearson, enters the room with EconoLift’s president, Willimina Karson. Everyone stands and Pearson calls out cities to bring in, the screen flashing into sections with each office appearing as it’s named. The voice in Rogan’s head gets louder and screams are added. He takes two staggering steps forward, interrupting Pearson’s greeting, and says, “Derrick… I don’t have a choice. I’m sorry.” Karson steps back to give them a moment and Rudy dashes towards the conference room with Rogan’s tablet. He got within three strides of the doors before they blew.
• Lieutenant Eve Dallas stands amid the carnage in the aftermath of a bomb, along with Lieutenant Lisbeth Salazar, from the Explosives and Bombs Unit. Eleven dead, nine injured, including the dead bomber. Witnesses said Paul Rogan, VP of marketing, revealed a suicide vest seconds before he detonated it. Salazar said it was designed for short-range effect, twelve to fifteen feet, and he was facing away from the door, toward Pearson. He blew Pearson up along with himself and the people at the front section of the table. Some of the deaths were caused by shrapnel as pieces of the table hit them rather than the actual explosion.
• Rogan got into the building with the vest in a lead-lined briefcase, he’s worked there almost a dozen years, is married going on fourteen years, with an eight-year-old daughter. The wife and daughter didn’t show up at the school where the wife works and the girl attends. Eve orders police to the residence. Peabody comes in, and Eve tells her it’s their case and should be treated as a homicide.
• The witnesses all told Eve Paul was a devoted family man, hardworking, loyal, smart, and crazy in love with his wife and daughter. His office reflects the same. His memo book outline his plans for the day, which do not include blowing himself and the president up. In fact, they’re all about the meeting and celebrating the success of the day. It doesn’t fit. Rogan doesn’t fit.
• Peabody lets Eve know that with Pearson dead, his son and daughter, both of whom were in Europe heading other offices, will co-head the company. Rogan is as clean as they come, as is his wife. Officers tag Eve from the Rogan/Greenspan residence – the wife had been worked over and was bound, locked in a basement storage room. The child was unharmed but for a few bruises and cuts, and they claim home invasion. Eve tells the officers to secure the scene and she and Peabody head over.
• Officers on scene report that they couldn’t get through security to go inside, so they used the battering ram after they saw that the wife and daughter were trapped inside. Two men broke into their house early Saturday morning while the three were in bed. They drugged Paul while he slept, then dragged the wife out of bed and smacked her around before tying her up. Then they hauled the kid in and tied her and the father up. They wore masks. The wife has two cracked ribs, a bruised kidney, sprained wrist, deep lacerations on both wrists and ankles from fighting against the zip ties, a broken nose, severe facial and torso bruising from repeated blows. She’s dehydrated and suffered a mild concussion. She won’t go to the hospital because she and the daughter don’t want to be separated.

Chapter 2

• Eve gets the sequence of events from the wife and daughter and determines that of the pair of intruders, one is dominant and enjoys inflicting pain, while the other went along but wasn’t cruel (he loosened Melody’s zip ties, for instance). They told Paul he had to take lives to save lives. Melody heard the men talking so she knew they made her father wear a bomb and after that they were going to Fat City – they’d be in Fat City at 9.
• Eve fills Cecily in on what happened that morning and asks who has the security codes to their house – just the immediate family, their parent’s [sic] helper who’s been with them for nine years, since Cecily was pregnant, and her mother and stepfather.
• Callendar tells Eve they have a seriously mega good security system, but somebody’s been working on getting through it for two months, beginning at the end of December, all between 2 and 3 a.m. Eve and Peabody determine that Paul was wearing an earbud with his daughter crying in his head and he was being watched by the men, so anytime he wavered they would play his wife and daughter screaming in his head. Nothing was taken from the house, so the men were focused and patient, with one purpose.
• Eve’s question: “How does blowing up a marketing exec, a meeting, a merger, and/or the head of Quantum lead to Fat City?” Peabody’s answer: “Sounds like a Roarke question.”

Chapter 3

• Iris Kelly, the domestic, tells Eve she’s never given the security code to anyone, not even her husband, and doesn’t have it written down anywhere. She remembers that when she was Christmas shopping with Melly in December she had her 'link and wallet lifted. Eve figures somebody was hoping to find the security code written down or in her ‘link as a shortcut to gaining access to the Rogan/Greenspan residence.
• At the hospital, Willimina Karson, the head of EconoLift, is in a coma from her injuries, so they interview Rogan’s admin, Rudy Roe, who was injured, He had texted Rogan over the weekend to give him some notes and the reply had been “Chill, Rudy. We’re locked on.” The phrase was unfamiliar to him, but Eve knows it’s military, so she thinks: “First mistake.” Roe says Paul was distracted and wasn’t acting right when he came in that morning.
• Another admin from Quantum, Kimmi, is there to visit Rudy. She wasn’t hurt but her boss, the digital marketing manager, was killed. She tells Eve her apartment was broken into in December when her roommate was on a business trip and she was on a date. Her computer, tablet, and a couple of other items were taken. She had data on her comp about the Econo deal. The question is: who benefits from the explosion?
• Eve and Peabody talk to the legal counsel for EconoLift and friend of Karson, Loren Able, who is able to provide information on the succession – Derrick Pearson’s children, who both work for Quantum Air, will co-head the company, and if Karson dies, her shares would be divided amongst her half-brother, her childhood friend, and himself. The merger will still go through because the Pearson kids are pushing for it and it’s all but signed. Eve decides “somebody had wanted more than their fair share.”

Chapter 4

• Eve reports to Commander Whitney, who lets Eve know that his wife and Derrick Pearson’s wife are as close as sisters, and Anna was relieved that Eve is heading the investigation. Eve then visits Feeney to get an update. The consensus is that Rogan didn’t leave work Friday afternoon planning to blow himself up on Monday and that Rogan’s admin needs a non-work life and should make a move on Kimmi. Feeney tells her Peabody and McNab got invited to the Oscars and he’s willing to spring McNab if she’ll spring Peabody. Eve admits that she read Nadine’s Red Horse manuscript, and “it’s fucking good.”
• Back in her office, she learns that the Candy Thief has struck again, leaving her with an alfalfa power smoothie from her AutoChef since the thief not only stole her chocolate but took the time and trouble to replace it with the actual menu item. Everyone at Quantum and Econo looks clean so far, and Baxter and Trueheart’s employee interviews line up with that. Eve passes on that they are looking for two suspects, at least one of whom has military training, most likely in explosives.

Chapter 5

• Peabody didn’t find any like crimes in IRCCA – most suicide bombers are political or used in robberies, primarily at financial institutions, and most were caught. Trueheart thinks maybe it was terrorism but nobody has claimed credit for it. Baxter thinks it has to do with shareholders – both companies would have taken a hit, with Quantum the more likely to recover quickly. Peabody looks into who didn’t show for work, Baxter and Trueheart continue the employee interviews, and Eve will find out what vendors they use in case one of them was the leak about the meeting time.
• Roarke shows up at Central and she fills him in while they eat chicken soup from her office AC, which is there because “someone who loves his cop decided she might eat actual food if it was handy.” He tells her nobody who knows her would believe she’d drink an alfalfa smoothie, so that was an easy guess for the candy thief.
• EconoLift was having cash flow problems for the past year or so due to their COO retiring and a few other factors, but Roarke has a transpo arm that competes with them and buying them would have tangled him up in regulations against monopolies. He was aware of the merger, and knew it would happen that day. It will still go through despite the bombing and the deaths, so the benefit would be to the people who buy the companies at their deflated prices and wait a few days to sell them once the stock recovers. Those who use loans for part of the buy, hoping to maximize profit while risking more loss are playing the margins to create leverage, and those are the people who will profit.
• Salazar’s report shows that some of the bomb components were military, confirming Eve’s suspicions.

Chapter 6

• Mira’s take is that they’re as close as brothers, both sociopaths who like to take risks, and the dominant one is much crueler than the other. Eve tries to figure out what else they plan to gamble on since this was so successful.
• Karson’s out of her coma and confirms that the merger will go through the following day. She tells Eve and Peabody that Rogan was shaky and she heard him say “I’m sorry. I don’t have a choice” before he detonated the bomb. Her admin, who was also injured, offers up Karson’s ex, Jordan Banks, but doesn’t think he’s the killing type because he’s too lazy and more of an opportunistic asshole.

Chapter 7

• Jordan Banks is fourth-gen money but seems to be a bit of a wastrel. Peabody brings up that The Icove Agenda is up against Banks Information and Media’s blockbuster, Five Secrets, for best picture. Banks owns an art gallery in New York, the Banks Gallery, and appears to be worth a lot, but the gossip pages tell a different story, as in, he drives everything into the red, and doesn’t do any real work, unlike the rest of his family.
• Eve calls Nadine to confirm that they consider Paul Rogan as much a victim as the others, that his family was tortured and held against their will, and that it wasn’t terrorism. Nadine has room on her transpo and in her suite to bring Peabody and McNab with Jake and her to the Oscars, and she’s leaving Friday afternoon. Eve also tells Nadine the Red Horse book is good, even better than the Icove one. She tells Eve the director and the cast have signed on for the vid, with Peabody being recast, what with K.T. Harris being dead and all, and they’re asking for a third book/vid so she’s trying to decide which case to write about. Eve asks Nadine not to say anything about the Oscars trip n case she can’t spring Peabody.
• Roarke says Banks is a wanker and a git – wealthy family, most of whom seem to do something constructive with their lives and advantages. Roarke had a close relationship with one of his cousins, who was a woman of intelligence and style, which contrasted sharply with Banks. He says Banks has the brains of a bag of wet mice, but he’s sly enough and has a certain slick charm that he slithers into to convince the unsuspecting to invest or lend or offer him bounties. He tried that with Roarke when he was at the cousin’s wedding in Madrid, and Roarke told him to bugger off.
• Banks lives in a three-level apartment in a building Roarke owns. Eve asks him about his relationship with Karson, which he said ended amicably a few weeks ago. He heard the bulletin about the explosion, and is relieved that Willi wasn’t killed, and he asks why the maniac did this. Eve lets him know Rogan was just as much a victim as the others, and she asks him if he was aware of the merger. He was since Willi shared some of the ins and outs with him, just like Eve shares her work with Roarke.
• Banks plays up his involvement in the business side of things, how he advised Willi on the negotiations, just like Eve asks for Roarke’s advice. He strongly encouraged the merger. He sent his condolences to the Pearsons, whose daughter, Liana, reminds him of Willi – “a fascinating woman with considerable style.” Roarke adds, “and disposable income.” Eve asks who else was interested in his advice and opinion on the merger, i.e., who did he talk to. He says he would never betray Willi’s trust, and Roarke says, “Bollocks to that. You’re a bloody sieve.”
• Eve says to think about it and she bets he didn’t contact the hospital to get Willi’s status. He asks them to leave before he’s forced to call security. Roarke reminds him it’s his building and his security, and tells him not to contact Liana. Eve is surprised Karson fell for Banks’s bullshit.

Chapter 8

• They go home and over a steak dinner, Eve tells him that when he served her steak on their first date, that was only the second time she’d eaten it – the first was when Feeney took her out after she made LT. Roarke says the first time he had steak was when he was about eight and stole one from a house in Dublin; he found it when he was looking for valuables in their cold box. Eve says freezers and underwear drawers – top two hiding places. Roarke, Mick, and Brian fried it up on a hot plate in their hideaway and surely bolloxed it up, but he’s never had better, before or after. Eve says the two men they’re hunting won’t be like them – even though Eve and Roarke grew up rough, it makes them remember the taste of something wonderful, as opposed to becoming mean, violent, and vicious. The two men are cold and calculating – they’re going to come from decent backgrounds, and they’re not desperate, they’re having fun.
• Eve tells Roarke about the upcoming Oscars, and how whenever she talks to suspects or witnesses these days they tell her they read the Icove book or saw the vid, and it’s weird for her. Even worse, the Red Horse book is “goddamn stupid good” and they want a trilogy. She tells him she and Feeney are going to cut Peabody and McNab loose to go, so they'll be with Nadine, however it goes. Roarke tells her they’d best contact Leonardo to dress them, and she can lend Peabody jewelry.
• Meanwhile, Banks has an epiphany while he’s at a party, and after some cocktails, illegals, and a quickie with the wife of a friend, he calls the people he gave info about the merger.
• Eve finds a couple of ex-employees with military backgrounds or with relatives with same, and Roarke tells Eve Banks is quite the scamp. His art gallery is a colossal failure from which he draws a tidy salary for doing nothing, he pays the staff a pathetic wage, offsetting that by allowing them to display their own art, and he takes 70% commission. A failure, but a good vehicle for money laundering, which he asks Eve to pass on to whoever handles that sort of thing at the NYPSD. Eve says it bothers Roarke more that he’s a git than that he’s a criminal, and he agrees
• They look into his financial advisors and his accounts. He bought a small chunk of Quantum stock in November, and put in an order that morning to sell it, just after the bombing. His broker strongly advised against it so he didn’t, but that means he wasn’t in on the scheme. The explosion was designed to cause some damage, but not too much, so the stock would rebound after a couple of days. Eve and Roarke make love and go to bed.

Day 2 – Tuesday

Chapters 9-10

• Eve wakes to her communicator beeping pre-dawn – Jordan Banks was found at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park. Roarke gives her a toasted bread pocket and sends her out warmly dressed for the sleet. A couple of college kids were walking around after a party and saw Banks floating in the reservoir. They jumped in and tried to revive him, but he was already dead. She advises them to take Sober-Up and sneak back into their dorm. Banks’s neck was broken before his body was dumped in the water, adding to the evidence that they’re looking for someone with military background. His wallet and ‘link are missing, but clearly it’s not a mugging.
• Eve and Peabody go to the hospital to inform Karson and get her take. She said she came to despise him, but didn’t wish him harm. She lent him money but then when he asked for another “loan” without having paid back the first one, she turned him down and he slept with another woman. She confronted him and he shrugged it off, saying he’d needed the money she hadn’t been willing to give him so he’d tapped another source, therefore it was really Karson’s fault. She says she told him too much, and now people are dead because of it. Eve tells her she’s not responsible and Banks paid a high price for it.
• Next they visit the Pearsons, where they learn that the daughter-in-law, Sybil, had also spilled info on the merger to Banks while he was in London – she met him at an art showing and was flattered by the attention since she had two children under three and was still on leave. She didn’t have an affair with him but she went out for drinks and met him for lunch. Shortly after that he became involved with Karson.
• At the morgue, Morris shows Eve a red pubic hair he found on Banks and will send to Harvo. Peabody finds the Rapid Cab pickup that took Banks to the reservoir. Banks’s financial advisors can’t add anything new.

Chapter 11

• Banks’s apartment is trashed, and all computer and communication devices are missing. Roarke is extra pissed because the building has a Five Lock rating. The building manager, Rhoda, says this is the first break-in they’ve had since she started four years ago. Eve asks her if she knows everyone who lives there by sight and name, and she says yes – they’re at 93% occupancy with 634 units occupied, 1816 residents including live-in staff. They employ more than 300 full-and part-time staff to serve and service the building, not including outside marketing, seasonal workers, and subcontractors on their call list. The people who live in the apartment across the hall from Banks have been out of town and are expected back the next day.
• Roarke determines that the apartment was broken into before Banks’s death, with Eve speculating that it’s easier to cross a lobby to an elevator before midnight than after three a.m. Peabody finds a memo book inside the toilet tank, perhaps the third most common hiding place. It’s Banks's on-the-go bookkeeping for the laundering service, but no names, just numbers.
• Eve sends Baxter and Trueheart to the gallery, which has also been broken into, although the manager, Maisie, doesn’t know if anything’s missing, art-wise, but all the electronics are missing. Also, Banks used to take home art he liked without recording it, keeping it there until he bored of it and either returned it or sold it for cash. Eve can tell a drawing is missing from his living room, so she has Maisie come over to check and she and Peabody go downstairs to study the security feed.
• Roarke and Bingley, the building security guy, find a blip - the person got off on Banks’s main floor, but the feed is missing the actual person. There’s nothing after that, so the person didn’t leave by the elevator from that floor. Eve thinks he exited from the terrace, but can’t find any signs, then remembers that the apartment across the hall is empty. Roarke scans the lock and sees it was compromised and there’s an empty frame on the rug. The terrace doors are open a crack, so whoever broke into Banks's apartment rappelled down, possibly just to another unoccupied apartment, leaving from there, or down to the bottom, carrying the rolled-up sketch.

Chapter 12

• Back at Central, Eve reviews the list of artwork Maisie knows Banks took home, although it’s incomplete. Mavis stops by with the family. After Eve covers the murder board, Bella comes in and gives her a unicorn hair clip and a finger painting that “rivaled one of Jenkinson’s most eye-burning ties for impact.” Bella helpfully points out Das, Ork, Somshit, and Gah-ad, along with their house. One of Mavis’s songs is up for Best Song, so she’s going to perform at the Academy Awards.
• Eve brings the painting home and shows it to Summerset, who tells her that a child’s artwork is usually displayed on the friggie because that’s the heart of the house, but in this case that would be her office friggie. He tells her he was sure she would have told Roarke about him killing Patrick Roarke, but she says she didn’t have proof and what good would it have done for him to know.
• She explains to him that she believes absolutely in the law, the need for it, the rules of it, that lead to justice. But that was a different time and place, and circumstances. He had no one in authority he could trust to serve and protect, to stand for him when a fucking monster threatened to rape, torture, and kill two children. Roarke’s here because Summerset stopped Roarke's father, because he protected the child he was at that time, but he doesn’t get points for teaching him to be a better thief.
• There are about 3,000 people to ID from the apartment security feed, but Eve eliminated kids, elderly, and women. Roarke calls Bella’s painting interesting and Eve tells him Mavis is performing at the Oscars, which he already knew. Eve asks Roarke how he would have gotten into Banks’s apartment if he didn’t live in the building and he says he wouldn’t have complicated it with elevator security and jammers, since the method is easy to spot in that case. He would have gone in from the outside, using electronic gloves and booties, between the glass to avoid being spotted, after midnight. He also would have searched without leaving a trace – why alert the police the moment they step in the door?

Day 3 – Wednesday

Chapter 12 (Continued)

• Eve tags Baxter to have him bring Maisie over to Banks’s apartment again because the stolen drawing is significant. Eve remembers that it was a figure study in black and white.

Chapter 13

• At her office, Eve does paperwork and finds a new hiding place for her candy – the inside of a ceiling tile, but she fastened a button alarm to the joint of the tile so “the shrieking whistle should scare the unholy crap out of the thief even as its blue dye exploded all over the fucker’s face.”
• Harvo tells her who Banks had sex with the night he was killed: Delores Larga Markin, daughter of the empress of shoes, who is married to Hugo Markin, son of Roger Markin the casino king. Maisie’s narrowed down the missing drawing to one of three possible artists. Eve and Peabody head to the Markins, who live in the same building as the party hosts.
• On the way, Eve mentions to Peabody that Nadine’s bringing “the rocker” to “this Hollywood thing,” which Peabody knows. Eve says Nadine has room in her transpo and the hotel, so Peabody is excited that Eve is going after all. Eve tells her hell no, Feeney has cleared it for McNab to take off on Friday, so they can go, returning on Tuesday. Peabody says she can’t think of a big enough word for how awesome it is, until she realizes that she doesn’t have anything Oscar-worthy to wear, at which time Eve tells her Roarke talked to Leonardo and he’s got it covered for both of them. Eve asks her why she didn’t ask to go if it meant so much to her, and she says Eve just gave them Mexico so she didn’t want to ask for something else on top of that.
• The Markins' living room has framed pictures of their family, but none of the couple together. Mr. Markin comes downstairs, where he says he knew Banks casually, saw him at the party, and happily divulges that his wife had an intimate tête-à-tête with him the night he was killed. Mrs. Markin comes downstairs to join them, and her husband continues his assholery by saying she was probably the last woman to give Banks a ride before he died. Eve gets his whereabouts for the previous weekend and then he goes upstairs.
• Mrs. Markin tells Eve their marriage is nothing more than a legal contract but her parents are adamantly opposed to divorce, so she’s living with her mistake. She says her husband wouldn’t have killed Jordan because he’s too lazy and dispassionate, and she was in Paris with her mother and sister, on a work trip, over the weekend. Since it was a bon voyage party, the hosts are already off on their yacht.

Chapter 14

• Peabody thinks Mr. Markin is kind of a shit, but Eve assures her he’s a complete shit – she says he lives by pleasure and greed. At the Banks Gallery, Maisie gives Eve the names of the three possible artists, and she recognizes the missing figure study as an Angelo Richie sketch. Richie had given it to Banks as a thank you for his first sale, but about two years ago they had a falling out and Richie removed all his work from the gallery. Richie has just come back to New York from Italy and has an opening at the Salon that night – his first major U.S. show.
• As they leave to head over to Richie’s apartment, Santiago tags her to tell her that even though the next DB was supposed to be his and Carmichael’s, he thinks the five they caught should be hers – Wayne Denby, one of the owners of the Salon, detonated a suicide vest, killing himself, some Salon workers, and Richie, who was loading in his work at the gallery. Eve tells him to get uniforms, plus Baxter and Trueheart to Denby’s house for the hostages and she and Peabody head to the Salon to interview the survivors.
• Roarke arrives at the Salon, worried that she was caught in the bombing, and checks the electronics. He says they own one of Richie’s pieces, a painting that’s hanging in the guest room that Peabody and McNab sometime use. He was an up-and-coming artist, whose work just got a whole lot more valuable. Officers tag Eve to say the pregnant wife was beaten, but not as badly as Cecily Greenspan, mostly around the face plus two broken fingers, and their five-year-old son was sedated and physically mostly unharmed but for dehydration.
• The home invasion was the previous morning, around 4 or 4:30 a.m. According to one of the other owners, Ilene Aceti, Wayne and his family were scheduled to go to Disney for an overnight trip the previous day to tell their son he was going to have a baby brother or sister, so she wasn’t expecting him until that evening at the opening. He arrived at the Salon earlier than planned, but told her and Joe, the third owner, to stay back, then he detonated the bomb. She was heading for him because he looked pale and shaky, so she was injured, but not seriously.
• Security was remotely compromised, and the fire suppression system had been off since around 5 a.m. Salazar confirms the bomb is the same as the Quantum one.

Chapter 15

• At the Denby residence, Feeney tells Eve the security was remoted in, in layers just like with the Rogans. Peabody thinks they’re making the father the sacrifice as the human bomb, but Eve wonders if they’re making him the hero, as the one who saves his family. They’re going to check Markin’s relatives for military background and then go back to the people at Banks’s building. They visit Richie’s neighbor, a sculptor who gave him a good-luck fuck the night before and thought he was ready to break out. She takes Eve and Peabody to his studio, which is trashed, with most of his work either stolen or destroyed. She says the only reasons for killing him are: somebody’s crazy, somebody’s crazy jealous, or somebody figures a dead artist’s work is worth a hell of a lot more than a live one’s, but she doesn’t know anyone who fits any of those categories.
• They visit another artist in Richie's building, Lollie, whose apartment is directly below his studio. She heard and saw him leave around 11:30, then heard “the men who came for the other paintings” a few hours later. She saw their black panel van and the two men, but they were wearing sunshades, hats, and gloves, and she was trying to block them out because she paints landscapes and cityscapes without people. She heard a lot of noise, like maybe they dropped something or were stomping around and then heard the elevator going back down and saw the men carrying out some of Richie’s paintings.
• Eve figures the killers had Denby wired, so they went to Richie’s studio, stole paintings, and then after they heard the bomb detonate, they tore up all the rest of his work. If Denby hadn't followed through, the worst was they still would have a bunch of Richie's paintings, but when he did they wanted to get rid of his in-progress work to further up the value.

Chapter 16

• At home Eve and Roarke have some of the home brew Will Bannon (Banner) sent them after Devoted, and Eve tries to figure out what the next target will be. Roarke tells her he paid 50,000 euros for Richie’s painting, could easily sell it for $250,000 now, and if he waited a couple of days and went through shadier people could get half a million for it. If he waited a few years he would be able to sell it for millions, but Eve doesn’t see the killers as the patient sort.
• Eve’s also worried about letting Peabody leave since the investigation isn’t wrapping up. Roarke volunteers to be her Peabody., She tells him he’d look stupid in that damn magic pink coat of hers, and he says it’s lucky he’s got his own. Eve figures the smarter thing would have been to blow Richie up in his studio instead of at the Salon, but the killers didn’t have enough money to buy his paintings, and therefore had to have Richie out of his studio so they could steal them.
• Eve found one possible, William O’Donnell, a mechanical engineer at EconoLift, whose brother-in-law is retired army, one of his sisters is an art broker based in Florence, and he came off nervy and evasive during the interview. Roarke knew a Liam Donnelly in Dublin who was a decent B and E man, but he can’t see him as part of murder or tormenting women and children. Eve and Roarke have an obligatory fight about trust, then they clear Connelly and agree to disagree.

Day 4 – Thursday

Chapter 17

• After violent makeup sex, Eve dreams of the bombing aftermath, smelling the smoke, blood, and burnt flesh and seeing the charred remains and blackened severed limbs where skin had bubbled off the bone, and blood, black as tar, splashed over the walls like a vicious painting. One wall held the names of the eighteen dead beneath the spatter with room for more. Two men stood in the room, dressed in black with white masks, speaking in whispers. Eve reaches for her weapon, but it’s not there. She charges at them anyway, unarmed, but hits an impenetrable wall. She searches unsuccessfully for a door or opening, and then tries again from a full out run, kicking and punching until her fists lefave smears of blood.
• One of the men laughs at her, and asks the other how long he thought she'd keep up. The accent is Irish, but stronger than Roarke's, and the other man says, “That one? Always was a stubborn little bitch.” The masks come off and it's Richard Troy and Patrick Roarke. Patrick says, “That boy always was a fuckup, but still he's got my looks, so you'd think he could do better that that one. And a cop for all of that as well.” Troy says, “She's a killer. I'm dead proof of it.” Eve tells them they are correct - they are both dead and Troy reminds her there are so many more like them, and they just keep coming. They drink whiskey to that, and she sees they're in a room with a bed, and on the bed a figure is struggling, but she can't see through the shadows.
• The wall clears and she sees the room is full of everyone she cares about except Roarke – every time she blinks, more people appear in the room, and no matter how hard she beats on the wall nobody hears or sees her. She rushes back to the figure on the bed and sees Paddy and Richie sitting at a table counting money, saying you can never have too much of it, and the getting more's the fun of it. Then she's bound to the bed, struggling and terrified, and the red light is blinking on and off. Troy says look who's joining the party, and Roarke steps in with a suicide vest locked around him. She screams and launches herself against the wall, feeling and hearing her arm break, yelling at Roarke not to do it, it's a lie.
• Roarke wakes her up, yelling at her to stop it, she needs to wake up, and she tells him he needs to promise not to. He was in the shower when he heard her yelling. They split a soother, then agree that neither of them would push the button, they'd find another way. Eve goes off to exercise for an hour. After waffles, Eve asks Roarke to mix things up today because she’s worried the killers will find a way to come after him or some sort of real estate, possible a piece he owns.

Chapter 18

• Eve figures the next target will be the same: male, 35-45, married with one child under twelve, single-family home, successful enough that he wouldn’t be questioned walking into the key area. She sets up the conference room for a meeting, commiserating with Feeney about having to watch the Oscars this year, blaming Nadine. Whitney drops by for a few minutes on his way to Derrick Pearson’s memorial. Peabody comes in buzzed from a departmentally approved booster and a shot of espresso.
• McNab found a mini house ‘link in Banks’s pantry for the droids to use, that the killer missed. On the night of his murder, he got a tag on it, another tag to Denby’s house ‘link two hours earlier, with a hang-up, then another to Richie’s apartment from just outside it minutes before the bombing (to make sure the apartment was empty) and one more to Rogan’s house ‘link on the night of the home invasion with a hang-up when he answered. All of the tags were made from a clone, and the transmission to Banks was made from within his building.
• They start interviewing residents of Banks’s building.

Chapter 19

• The delightful Clinton Wirely is an unapologetic gossip and thinks “The Unfortunate Mr. Banks” was “a bit of a scoundrel.” He dishes about Banks’s womanizing, drug use, and gambling, and provides a detailed accounting of his whereabouts during the past week. He tells Eve and Peabody, “If there’s something I don’t know about someone in the building, I can probably find out.”
• Lucius Iler rings all the bells – 44, generational wealth, no marriage or offspring, many family members in the military including a dead brother, and he's a really bad liar who claimed to be only slightly acquainted with Banks, although they had been to each other’s apartments to view their art collections. His alibi is a weekend road trip looking for antiques for his family business, where he paid for everything with cash, got no receipts, and couldn’t remember where he stopped. He returned the night of Banks’s murder but was too tired to attend the party, even though it was held by their mutual friends.
• The name Angelo Richie is familiar to him from his tragic death the previous afternoon, but he doesn’t see what that has to do with Banks’s murder, even after Eve tells him about the Richie figure study in Banks’s apartment. Iler tells them, “I doubt I’d have recognized the work. Surely you’re not suggesting Jordan was killed over a charcoal figure study by an emerging artist.” Weird, since nobody mentioned charcoal… He says his brother Terry gave his life serving – there was a terrorist attack on his base while he was serving in Seoul four years ago. He had been due to come home the following week and was going to propose to his girlfriend. He saved lives that day, gave his life to save others, and was a hero.
• Eve tells Peabody they could sweat out a confession and nail him on eighteen murders and forced imprisonments, but she doesn’t think he will flip on his partner and she wants them both. Instead, they’re going to research his brother and the girlfriend.

Chapter 20

• According to Captain Iler’s commanding officer, Iler was pulling wounded to safety before rushing back for more and a second explosion took him out. His girlfriend at the time, Felicia Mortimer, grew close to his mother and Lucius in the aftermath, but met someone a year ago (three years after Terry's death) and married the previous summer, thus triggering Iler to become evil by not honoring his hero baby brother’s memory.
• Eve says they need to continue interviewing building occupants in case the partner also lives there, but meanwhile she puts surveillance on Iler. Nadine calls to say she has a spot on Knight at Night, which is out of Hollywood this week, which means her trip is bumped up and Peabody and McNab need to leave now.
• Eve bangs her head on Rhoda’s desk and then dismisses Peabody. Baxter and Trueheart, who are in the building doing interviews, come down to the office at Eve's request, and she tags Roarke, leaving a message with Caro that Peabody’s schedule moved up and she's on her way to California. Captain Iler’s CO has sent her a list of military personnel on base at the time of the attack, and after she eliminates females, dead, and active duty, she decides he’s probably younger that Iler so he can continue to be the older brother even though he isn’t the dominant partner.
• She fills the detectives in and tells them to generate ID shots from the remaining personnel while she and Mira consult. Baxter is impressed that Rhoda has real coffee and tells Trueheart he should marry her. Trueheart says he has a girl, so Baxter tells him “Keep the girl, marry Rhoda. She has amazing powers.” Eve concedes her amazing powers, so Baxter says maybe he’ll marry her, but Eve says Rhoda’s too smart for that, and he tells her, “I overcome female brains with my smooth charm and sexual prowess.” Trueheart says “He really does.” Baxter replies, “It’s a skill.”
• Mira agrees with Eve’s assessment: the less physically adept older brother was proud and protective of his younger sibling. They were left in the care of staff while their parents traveled, with the father a dominant figure who controlled and demanded and definitely did not offer unconditional selfless love, and was probably critical of or demeaning to the frailer, unathletic older son. The mother cared less about tending and protecting her children than about pleasing her husband. The younger brother grew up and formed new relationships, but Lucius never moved on, keeping his brother at the center. He has no capacity for self-blame, so it’s the father’s fault his brother died – he should have protected him but instead caused his death.
• The woman the younger brother loved also moved on, choosing another – women are weak, calculating, without loyalty. Let the father prove he’d protect the child, and the partner, a soldier, is trained to accept risk and violence, to lay down his life if necessary. He survived the attack but his captain didn’t.
• Roarke arrives and Eve fills him in. He sums it up as: “So, basically, Iler’s killed eighteen people, terrorized two families, because his own parents didn’t give him enough hugs, his brother died saving others, and the woman his brother hoped to marry didn’t grieve for the rest of her life.” Eve adds, “an addiction to rick, gambling, and greed, and a partner who strokes his twisted resentments.”
• Eve tells Roarke Rhoda should get a big, fat bonus. She has Roarke run backgrounds on the military list, with an eye to a questionable psych eval, medical or dishonorable discharge, single, possibly employed as security. Baxter shows Rhoda the ID shots, which she narrows down to five possibles. He gets Remarkable Rhoda coffee, is delighted to hear she takes it black (“When you have real, why add to it?”), and hits on her again.
• Rhoda finds the partner – he’s shaved his head and his nose is thinner and straight. It’s Oliver Nordon, who visits Iler mostly in the evenings. Trueheart says that’s Sergeant Oliver Silverman, age 32 at the time of the attack, wounded and honorably discharged due to medical and psych evals. Eve thinks there’s something else there because if he’d wanted to stay in they would have found him a place unless they deemed him unfit. Oliver Silverman/Nordon is 36, a freelance security consultant, and they have his address.
• Eve outlines her plan for taking him down at his house, assuming he has explosives, and therefore needing to evacuate residences and businesses on both sides. Rhoda tells Roarke Eve is marvelous and he agrees. Eve and Roarke head to Iler’s apartment and watch him rappel down to the sidewalk, where he is surrounded by cops. One down, one to go.

Chapter 21

• Callendar has eyes and ears on Silverman’s home, tells Feeney that McNab did a triple cartwheel heading out the door for California, and that a bunch of them are having a viewing party at the Blue Line on Sunday. The house is wired and unoccupied. Eve hears an explosion, but Salazar assures her they’re five-by-five and shutting down the booms on the doors and windows. The explosion was on the third floor, but nobody was up there yet. Salazar clears it, saying the boomer that detonated was on a timer and they deactivated the rest. Silverman piled all his electronics onto the third floor, in the workshop he used to build the vests, which is what blew up. The safe is empty and he’s cleared out completely.
• Roarke runs the property – Iler bought it a year ago and has claimed a loss on his taxes for maintenance and repair with a rental income of $200/month, which is about standard for a New York City three-story townhome with a basement in that neighborhood (Lincoln Square). [Note sarcasm: In 2024 it’s upwards of $15,000/month.] Eve figures Silverman’s moving on to their third target with no one to stop him from killing the hostages.
• Iler had the painting, half a million in cash, and codes and IDs for three accounts when they took him. Eve sends Roarke back to Iler’s apartment to look for a trail while she heads to Central to try to break him. Peabody texts to say they made it. Eve and Baxter interview Iler and his high-priced fancy-pants lawyer. His defense is:

1. His client was nowhere near Quantum or the Salon
2. Building security shows he didn’t leave his residence on the night Banks was killed
3. His hobby is climbing and belaying, but it wasn’t an attempt to elude the police since he had no reason to expect arrest since he’d committed no crime
4. The charcoal Richie sketch he had with him was purchased from Banks as a cash sale between friends with no receipt, and how can Eve be sure it was the same one she saw in Banks’s apartment the night he was murdered?
5. It’s hardly against the law to carry half a million dollars, a passport, codes for numbered accounts, clothing, and other personal effects, although perhaps Iler was trying to game the system with the accounts, and they’re willing to cooperate with any levy of taxes and/or fines if warranted

• Baxter asks Iler, “Is your suit here telling you that you’re going to lose up to 70% of what you squirreled away – and likely do a little time in a white-collar cage?”
• Eve then hits him with identifying his partner, Sergeant Oliver Silverman, and the whole renting a townhouse to him for $200/month. She tells him they’ve got people going through both places and they’ll wrap him up and throw him in a concrete cage off-planet, which makes every ounce of color drain from his face. Baxter laughs, saying, “Look at him. He’s starting to think he can make a deal. Eighteen people dead and he thinks he can deal it down because he’s got money.” Eve points out that he doesn’t have nearly as much as he thinks since the IRS will take most of it, and tells Singa he better get his retainer up front. Baxter adds that the off-planet cages are cold so Iler had better pack some insulated johnnies.
• Eve thinks Singa will start researching Silverman/Nordon and try for a deal to pin everything on him. Baxter knows a woman at the IRS and will tip her off to look at the dark accounts and start a freeze on them. Singa pulled the plug for the night so the interview can’t continue for another eight hours. Eve and Baxter arrange to meet back at Central at 4 a.m.
• At home, Roarke tells her he has Iler on tax evasion and insider trading with Markin, who has been embezzling money from his wife. Eve is hoping she can convince Iler's father that Lucius is smearing the honor of his other son, but he’s in France and wants to sleep on it.

Chapter 22

• Roarke found the van and the garage space. Feeney and his boys dug up the conversation Iler had with Banks: Banks threatened exposure, Iler offered him $100K instead of the $250K Banks asked for, and agreed to meet him at 3 a.m. at the reservoir. Eve wonders why Iler didn’t throw his ‘link into the river after beating it with a hammer, but Roarke points out it’s a $10,000 custom ‘link with platinum casing. Roarke finds the target list: Paul Rogan, Wayne Denby, Tyber Chenowitz, Miller Filbert. Eve sends Baxter Filbert's info and Eve alerts Salazar to send E&B units to both targets.
• Chenowitz’s house is less than two minutes from Eve and Roarke’s, and Roarke is familiar with it, so he knows it’s back from the street and gated like theirs. He bypasses their security and Eve calls for backup to wait outside the gate. She sees the van and calls Salazar to send a unit even though she already did that, telling her to contact Baxter to get him over to her location. Roarke gets the location of the occupants in the house and scans for explosives. The plan is: Eve will go in as if she’s alone and if she lowers her weapons it means Roarke has a shot at Silverman, and should take it. Tyber and his wife are tied up and bloodied, with Tyber wearing a suicide vest. He tells Eve to get his wife and son out because the killer has the detonator.
• She hears footsteps and follows the sound up to the rooftop garden, where Silverman has August, the six-year-old. Silverman has a combat knife against August’s throat and is dressed in full riot gear. Eve tries to reason with him that it’s not what Captain Iler would have wanted, but it turns out there’s no reasoning with batshit crazy sociopaths on a mission. They hear sirens, which distracts Silverman long enough for Eve to take a shot at him, catching the outer edge of the kid, but causing Silverman to drop him. He slashes at her coat, not noticing that the knife is skidding off it and they have a knock-down fight, with multiple injuries on both sides (see injuries in death for details).

Chapter 23

• Eve agrees to the medical exam and everything but the tranq. Roarke was able to diffuse the bomb, and Salazar locked it in a safe box. The plan had been to send Chenowitz out to the building Iler bought, where a crew of six or eight would be setting up for rehab. Five more charges were set in there for a chain reaction. The classic “Buy a property, over insure it, destroy it, collect.” Chenowitz – the successful builder and devoted family man – blows up his own crew, no matter that there would be no collecting on it.
• In Silverman’s mind, the military let him down, betrayed him. His brothers, his family, all Blue Falcons [In military slang, “Blue Falcon” is a euphemism for “buddy fucker.” It's used to describe someone who betrays or lets down their fellow soldiers or comrades, often by selfish or cowardly actions. For example, a Blue Falcon might volunteer to take on a mission, but then is nowhere to be found when it actually comes time to execute.] In his mind, he’s the buddy who’d been fucked and he and Iler fed off each other. Iler had the funds and the financial know-how, Silverman had the tactics and explosives training, and they both used what they had to twist the memory of a hero for fun and profit.

Day 5 – Friday (no gap, just after midnight)

Chapter 23 (Continued)

• Roarke goes up to EDD while Eve writes up the reports and tags Reo and Mira. Reginald Iler finally gets back to Eve. He notices her bruises and she tells him she was in a brawl with Sergeant Oliver Silverman, who looks worse and has been booked as his son’s coconspirator on eighteen counts of murder and related charges. She tells him they will each do eighteen consecutive life sentences and she no longer needs his help, but if he cooperates she can take that into consideration as to where the life sentences are served.
• The plan is for Eve and Baxter to interview Iler and Eve and Trueheart to take Silverman. Anna Whitney decides she needs to be in observation so she can report back to Rozilyn Pearson and give her peace. Eve is thrilled.
• Singa begins by telling Eve he will file a formal complaint for demanding his client submit to interview before 5 a.m. Eve points out that he had his eight and he should have thought about the timing before he demanded the eight at 2000 (8 p.m.). Also, Singa wants all questions addressed to him. Eve reminds him that he should get his fee up front since his client is broke and has no access to funds. All of his accounts have been frozen by the IRS pending further investigation. Baxter tells him “They’re pretty excited. Even more since we broke through your filters and coding. You’ve been a very bad boy, Lucius. There are IRS agents having wet dreams right now, and you’re the star.”
• Eve tells Iler that she had a talk with his father so he can forget about him funding the lawyer. Iler said she had no right to involve his father and Eve says, “You had no right to murder eighteen people, to destroy eighteen families. Which one of us do you think is going to pay?” Baxter tells him, “You’re cut off, sonny boy. Daddy’s closed the family bank.” Eve lays it out – if Iler gives her a clear and full confession on all charges, with all details of the crimes he and Silverman committed, his father may pay the legal fees.
• Eve reminds him of the eighteen life sentences off-planet, he whines that he can’t go off-planet, he has a condition. She assures him that if the psych eval does show he has a condition, he will be properly sedated for the trip to Omega. He has one shot to serve time on-planet and that’s a full confession with all the details: “hedge, bullshit, lie, evade, we’re done.” As they break so Iler can consult with Singa, Eve lets him know they have Silverman and the Chenowitz family is fine. Also, Silverman looks a lot worse than she does and she’s about to go chat with him.
• Trueheart tells Eve the Chenowitz kid told him “a ninja woman saved him.” Silverman says he’s waiting for his attorney. Eve asks, “Your court-appointed? Oh, I bet you meant that high-priced criminal attorney you contacted after booking. Too bad we’re going to have to inform him you have no available funds.” She tells him his accounts are frozen, Iler’s got nothing, and his daddy won’t pay this time. Also they have the Richie paintings from the garage Iler rented so he can't sell them. Silverman decides he doesn’t want to wait in a cage: “Fuck the lawyers, fuck the courts, fuck you.”
• Trueheart tells Eve “I think he’s a little upset he got taken down by a woman, Lieutenant.” She says, “You think? He got most of his dick and one of his balls blown off. He can pump the chemical testosterone and steroids all he wants. They don’t make him a man.” Silverman officially waives his right to an attorney and complains about the army telling him he wasn’t fit to serve after the attack and injuries. Eve tells him he used his compensation and pension to buy drugs and gambled away the rest, refusing treatment at the VA or other assistance offered to veterans.
• Silverman says he put his life on the line for the rich bastards in their big houses and they’re no better than him and then brags about building the bombs, saying nobody held a bang stick to their heads and he could have taken out more but Lucius wanted to keep the casualties down – he’s got soft spots. He goes through the process of how they chose their targets, bragging about it all, saying his mistake was leaving people alive. “Dead don’t talk.” Eve tells him he’s a disgrace to everything Captain Iler stood for, fought for, and died for.
• Mira does another round with the healing wand and ice patches on Eve, telling her she played Silverman perfectly by tapping into his anger, resentment, manhood, and ego. He showed no remorse, in fact he showed pride. Now he considers himself a prisoner of war and should be put on suicide watch. Eve tells Mira about the fighting: “Roarke’s Christmas present – dojo training. I was a goddamn crane, and a snake, a freaking dragon, and had the tiger coming but he tried to take a header off the wall.”
• Back with Iler, Eve tells him Silverman rolled on him like a pig rolls in shit. Iler said the men (Rogan and Denby) made a choice – they could have gone to the police, that killing their families was just a bluff. He admits they bear some responsibility, but he never touched them. Ollie could go too far, but Iler held him back, except for Banks, but he was blackmailing him, and Ollie was the one who killed him. At the end Baxter tells Eve he wanted to high-five her but Iler was just goddamn pathetic.
• Anna Whitney thanks Eve for finding justice for Derrick Pearson, a good man. Whitney sends Eve home, saying he will write it up and she’s on medical leave until the start of her shift on Monday morning (wow, a whole two days off, what some people would call “a weekend”).

Day 6 – Saturday

• Sleep, food, repair work on Eve, sex.

Day 7 – Sunday

Epilogue

• Eve and Roarke watch the pregame stuff for the Oscars. Peabody is on the red carpet in “some frothy pink number that bared good, strong shoulders and sparkled in the sunlight,” confusing Eve because of the whole time zone thing (it was dark in New York). McNab’s duded up in a tux with a plaid vest and a screaming red bow tie. Mavis is in a sweeping blaze of red and white, with the sweeps separating into fan blades when she twirls. Nadine went for sleek and classic and deep gold, with Jake in rocker-style formal – a leather tux jacket and boots. Mavis grabs Peabody and McNab and introduces them, saying “NYPSD. Best fricking PSD in the universe of PSDs” and does a shout-out for Dallas and Roarke.
• Eve falls back asleep, but Roarke wakes her up to hear Mavis perform, fronting a dozen dancers in perfect and complex choreography. Nadine wins best adapted screenplay for The Icove Agenda and thanks Dallas in her speech, saying it’s as much hers, that she’s sharing the award (but keeping it at her place) with the smartest, bravest, most dedicated cop and frustrating person she knows. The vid took five Oscars: best screenplay, best director, best cinematography, best actress, and best picture.
• The end.

Character List

List of Main Characters Appearing in this Book

• Eve Dallas
• Roarke

List of Secondary Characters Appearing in this Book

• David Baxter
• Detective Carmichael
• Uniform Carmichael
• Ryan Feeney
• Mavis Freestone
• Nadine Furst
• Galahad
• Leonardo
• Ian McNab
• Charlotte Mira
• Morris
• Delia Peabody
• Detective Santiago
• Lawrence Summerset
• Troy Trueheart
• Jack Whitney

List of Recurring Characters Appearing in this Book

• Bella Eve
• Callendar
• Louise Dimatto
• Caro Ewing
• Harvo
• Brian Kelly
• Jake Kincade
• Dennis Mira
• Charles Monroe
• Cher Reo
• Officer Shelby
• Anna Whitney

List of Minor Characters Appearing in this Book

• Loren Able
• Ilene Aceti
• Jordan Banks
• Astrid Baretta
• Bingley
• Tyber Chenowitz
• Devin Garrison
• Cecily Greenspan
• Officer Gregg
• Lucius Iler
• Jeannie
• Jolie
• Willimina Karson
• Iris Kelly
• Maisie Kelsi
• Kimmi
• Mikhail Kinski
• Joe Kotler
• Amelia Leroix
• Liana
• Richard Lieberman
• Lilian
• Lollie
• Agatha Lowell
• Delores Larga Markin
• Hugo Markin
• Derrick Pearson
• Drew Pearson
• Rozilyn Pearson
• Rhoda
• Rudy Roe
• Melody Rogan
• Paul Rogan
• Lieutenant Lisbeth Salazar
• Oliver Silverman aka Oliver Nordon
• Richard Singa
• Stu
• Bessie Stuben
• Sybil
• Officer Vols
• Marshall Whitier
• Anson Whitt
• Clinton Wirely

List of Peripheral Characters Appearing or Mentioned in this Book

• Mr. Abbott
• Adam
• Alora
• Letitia Alison Argyle
• Morgan Banks
• Will Bannon [sic]
• Trenton Bean
• Mr. Benson
• Lia Berkell
• Brad
• Mr. Buckley
• Charo
• August Chenowitz
• Cheryl
• Cista
• Mr. Clarke
• Colleen
• Mick Connelly
• Noelle Daub
• Evan Denby
• Wayne Denby
• Zelda Este Denby
• Simon Fent
• Miller Filbert
• Franco
• Gary
• Georgie (dog)
• Dustin Greggor
• Herbert
• Mr. Howard
• Reginald Iler
• Terrance James Iler
• Jacey
• Javier
• Jean-Phillipe
• Johnny
• Juliette
• Ms. Karlin
• Angela Knight [sic]
• Carlotta Larga
• Phillipe Larga
• Ivanna Liski
• Mr. Lorimer
• Mandy
• Marcia
• Roger Markin
• Milicent
• Loden Modele
• Felicia Mortimer
• Noah
• Granny Norwicki
• William O’Donnell né Liam Donnelly
• Oberon (Oberman)
• Mr. Olsen
• Delvinia Otter
• Pitty
• Sandy Plank
• Mr. Prinz
• Renaldo
• Angelo Richie
• Patrick Roarke
• Mr. Schultz, Sr.
• Tad Schultz
• Ankah Si
• Mr. Simston
• Elsa Sissle
• Mr. Skinner
• Mr. or Ms. Spacer
• Mr. or Ms. Spacer
• Scott Trevor
• Trey
• Richard Troy
• Thad Trulane
• Nigel Tudor
• Colonel Xavier Unger
• Aaron Vogal
• Selma Witt
• Yasmine (cat)
• Mrs. Yuri
• Ms. Yuri

Memorable Quotations

Eve: “Money laundering’s frowned upon.”
Roarke: “A pity, as it comes out so crisp and clean.”

• “The heart and the brain don’t always mesh, do they? I know your heart, darling Eve, but your brain still has some mysterious corners.” - Roarke

YANNIs

• Loren Able was wearing an “I F059 NEW YORK” sweatshirt at the hospital, but in the audio version, it was “I HEART NEW YORK,” which made considerably more sense
• Eve told Roarke she had one board for residents, including day staff, one for hotel employees, including subcontractors, and one for visitors and outside vendors, and Peabody was taking the hotel staff. This should be apartment employees and staff
• Renee Oberman has become Oberon
• Will Banner has become Will Bannon
• Annie Knight has become Angela Knight
• More of an oddity: Eve programmed an alfalfa power smoothie from her office AutoChef, “her latest hiding place for her candy stash. ‘Son of a bitch!’ She pulled out an actual alfalfa power smoothie. ‘Son of candy-stealing bitch of a bastard!’ Not only had the nefarious Candy Thief snatched her chocolate, he/she had taken the time and trouble to replace it with the actual item on the freaking menu.” Since she had done this previously in Devoted in Death (a vitamin smoothie) and it failed then, it seems odd she’d try it again.