F A C E
O F
F U R Y
(A Zoe PrimeMystery—Book Five)
B L A K E P I E R C E
BlakePierce
Blake Pierce is the USA Todaybestselling author of the RILEY PAGE mystery series, which includes seventeenbooks. Blake Pierce is also the author of the MACKENZIE WHITE mystery series,comprising fourteen books; of the AVERY BLACK mystery series, comprising sixbooks; of the KERI LOCKE mystery series, comprising five books; of the MAKINGOF RILEY PAIGE mystery series, comprising six books; of the KATE WISE mysteryseries, comprising seven books; of the CHLOE FINE psychological suspensemystery, comprising six books; of the JESSE HUNT psychological suspensethriller series, comprising fourteen books (and counting); of the AU PAIRpsychological suspense thriller series, comprising three books; of the ZOEPRIME mystery series, comprising four books (and counting); of the new ADELESHARP mystery series, comprising four six books (and counting); and of the newEUROPEAN VOYAGE cozy mystery series.
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BOOKS BY BLAKEPIERCE
EUROPEAN VOYAGECOZY MYSTERY SERIES
MURDER (AND BAKLAVA)(Book #1)
DEATH (AND APPLESTRUDEL) (Book #2)
CRIME (AND LAGER)(Book #3)
ADELE SHARPMYSTERY SERIES
LEFT TO DIE (Book #1)
LEFT TO RUN (Book #2)
LEFT TO HIDE (Book#3)
LEFT TO KILL (Book#4)
LEFT TO MURDER (Book#5)
LEFT TO ENVY (Book#6)
LEFT TO LAPSE (Book#7)
THE AU PAIR SERIES
ALMOST GONE (Book#1)
ALMOST LOST (Book #2)
ALMOST DEAD (Book #3)
ZOE PRIME MYSTERYSERIES
FACE OF DEATH (Book#1)
FACE OF MURDER (Book#2)
FACE OF FEAR (Book#3)
FACE OF MADNESS (Book#4)
FACE OF FURY (Book#5)
FACE OF DARKNESS(Book #6)
A JESSIE HUNTPSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE SERIES
THE PERFECT WIFE(Book #1)
THE PERFECT BLOCK(Book #2)
THE PERFECT HOUSE(Book #3)
THE PERFECT SMILE(Book #4)
THE PERFECT LIE (Book#5)
THE PERFECT LOOK(Book #6)
THE PERFECT AFFAIR(Book #7)
THE PERFECT ALIBI(Book #8)
THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR(Book #9)
THE PERFECT DISGUISE(Book #10)
THE PERFECT SECRET(Book #11)
THE PERFECT FAÇADE (Book#12)
THE PERFECTIMPRESSION (Book #13)
THE PERFECT DECEIT(Book #14)
THE PERFECT MISTRESS(Book #15)
CHLOE FINEPSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE SERIES
NEXT DOOR (Book #1)
A NEIGHBOR’S LIE(Book #2)
CUL DE SAC (Book #3)
SILENT NEIGHBOR (Book#4)
HOMECOMING (Book #5)
TINTED WINDOWS (Book#6)
KATE WISE MYSTERYSERIES
IF SHE KNEW (Book #1)
IF SHE SAW (Book #2)
IF SHE RAN (Book #3)
IF SHE HID (Book #4)
IF SHE FLED (Book #5)
IF SHE FEARED (Book#6)
IF SHE HEARD (Book#7)
THE MAKING OFRILEY PAIGE SERIES
WATCHING (Book #1)
WAITING (Book #2)
LURING (Book #3)
TAKING (Book #4)
STALKING (Book #5)
KILLING (Book #6)
RILEY PAIGEMYSTERY SERIES
ONCE GONE (Book #1)
ONCE TAKEN (Book #2)
ONCE CRAVED (Book #3)
ONCE LURED (Book #4)
ONCE HUNTED (Book #5)
ONCE PINED (Book #6)
ONCE FORSAKEN (Book#7)
ONCE COLD (Book #8)
ONCE STALKED (Book#9)
ONCE LOST (Book #10)
ONCE BURIED (Book#11)
ONCE BOUND (Book #12)
ONCE TRAPPED (Book#13)
ONCE DORMANT (Book#14)
ONCE SHUNNED (Book#15)
ONCE MISSED (Book#16)
ONCE CHOSEN (Book#17)
MACKENZIE WHITEMYSTERY SERIES
BEFORE HE KILLS (Book#1)
BEFORE HE SEES (Book#2)
BEFORE HE COVETS(Book #3)
BEFORE HE TAKES (Book#4)
BEFORE HE NEEDS (Book#5)
BEFORE HE FEELS (Book#6)
BEFORE HE SINS (Book#7)
BEFORE HE HUNTS (Book#8)
BEFORE HE PREYS (Book#9)
BEFORE HE LONGS (Book#10)
BEFORE HE LAPSES(Book #11)
BEFORE HE ENVIES(Book #12)
BEFORE HE STALKS(Book #13)
BEFORE HE HARMS (Book#14)
AVERY BLACKMYSTERY SERIES
CAUSE TO KILL (Book#1)
CAUSE TO RUN (Book#2)
CAUSE TO HIDE (Book#3)
CAUSE TO FEAR (Book#4)
CAUSE TO SAVE (Book#5)
CAUSE TO DREAD (Book#6)
KERI LOCKE MYSTERYSERIES
A TRACE OF DEATH(Book #1)
A TRACE OF MUDER(Book #2)
A TRACE OF VICE (Book#3)
A TRACE OF CRIME(Book #4)
A TRACE OF HOPE (Book#5)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY TWO
CHAPTER ONE
Zoe closed her eyes, tilting herhead to lean against the back of the sofa. It didn’t matter either way. Outsideher open curtains, darkness had fallen over Bethesda, and she hadn’t botheredto get up to turn the lights on. In the distance, yellow pinpricks in theskyline told her that Washington, D.C., was still awake, and she was tired ofstaring at them.
That was not her world anymore.All she saw when she looked at it were the numbers: the floors in everybuilding and how many windows they had, the distance from the ground, theamount of time it would take a falling object to hit the sidewalk from anygiven window. The number of buildings, the divisions of streets and the angles atwhich they intersected each other, around and around in her head, until all shewanted to do was bury herself in darkness and shut it all out for good.
And then, with her eyes closed,her other senses would take over. The seconds ticking audibly from her watch,which she had days since taken off and thrown across the room so that she wouldnot be able to hear it anymore. She could still count them. Even the bubblespopping from inside the bottle of her beer began to take on a pattern of theirown: calculating the time between pops, the volume left in the bottle, thevelocity of the bubbles’ movement when she squinted at the liquid in thehalf-light.
Zoe took
