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Is the key to a therapists murder hidden awayin a patients mind? Is a shrinks death fall a Freudian slip? Hannah Ives has every reason to mind her own business. Having survived a recent bout with breast cancer, shes opting for reconstructive surgery and a fresh start. Her Annapolis home is decorated for better feng shui. Her parents are living close by. And her sister, Georgina, is finally getting help for recurring depression. Everything is coming up roses-until her sisters therapist takes a nosedive off a balcony. Now, with Georgina a prime suspect in the murder, Hannah needs to do some analysis of her own. A few pages torn from an appointment book may hold a crucial clue. And some bizarre memories from her sisters past may point to a motiveif Hannah can keep a clear head and dare to enter the darkness of a killers twisted mind

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Marcia Talley

Unbreathed Memories

The second book in the Hannah Ives series, 2000

In Memoriam

Lois Elizabeth Tuckerman Dutton

1917-1980

Mother

Hard-handed men, that work in Athens here,

Which never labourd in their minds till now;

And now have toild their unbreathed memories

With this same play, against your nuptial.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Nights Dream

Act 5, Scene 1

chapter 1

Believe it or not, there are advantages to having had cancer. When the bloodmobile folks come to town, for one, theyre not the least bit interested in siphoning blood from you, even if youve got some rare blood type known only to God and six people on a remote island off the coast of South Carolina. Two, I get my mammograms at half price. Third, Ive discovered one can get away with being a bit eccentric. If you decide to take up skydiving or transcendental meditation, for example, or suddenly become a vegetarian addicted to broccoli sprouts, people may think youre a little nuts, but they dont give you a hard time about it. They just nod their heads, peek at each other sideways, and whisper knowingly, cancer.

Thats probably why my sister Ruth thought Id be interested in those New Age gizmos she sells in her shop on Main Street in downtown Annapolis when theyve never particularly interested me before. She had just telephoned to say shed be coming over with a little something to show me. I shuddered. The last time shed brought me a little something-bamboo curtains meant to slow down fast-moving chi between the family room and the kitchen-it had ended up costing me seventy-four dollars just to get them hung.

While I waited for Ruth, I sat at my kitchen table going through the mail. The kitchen was particularly pleasant that day, unusually warm and bright, with sunshine flooding the room, reflecting off the thin layer of snow covering the ground outside. Spread out before me were all the Christmas cards I had missed while I was out in Colorado attending the birth of my first grandchild-a little girl named Chloe, after one of my son-in-law Dantes clients. A particularly wealthy and grateful woman, she had brought him a lot of new bodies to massage. To me, Chloe was the title of a raucous old Spike Jones tune with gongs and bells, but my daughter Emily liked the name because it sounded like a warm, spring breeze. I looked it up-Chloe is a Greek word meaning young, green shoot. Not very zephyr-like, but I wasnt going to mention it.

I shuffled through the greeting cards, looking first for ones from absent friends. With enthusiasm I slit the envelopes open with a kitchen knife so I could catch up with lives via hastily scribbled notes or elaborate, mass-produced Christmas letters in which happy family groups smiled out at me smudgily from poor-quality photocopies.

Beneath an oversized seasonal communication from State Farm Insurance, I uncovered a manila envelope from a plastic surgeon in Severna Park I had consulted about reconstructive surgery just before leaving for Colorado Springs. Reconstruction. I liked that word. It evoked visions of something new and wonderful rising from the ruins. I daydreamed about it while putting the teakettle on to boil, wondering what my chest would look like after surgery when they removed the bandages for the first time. The plastic surgeon had shown me samples of her work; photographs of other women, naked from the waist up, with black rectangles covering their eyes. I imagined my own picture-a dark oblong wearing light brown curls, a crooked smile, and just below my shoulder and to the right, a pert little hill jutting out of a ravaged plain.

I measured some jasmine tea into a silver tea ball and dropped it into the pot to steep. While I waited, I opened the envelope from the doctor. It contained a letter encouraging me to call her office at my convenience to confirm the surgery, and a two-page, legal-looking consent form. Reading this stuff required a strong stomach and an equally robust cup of tea, so I poured myself a mug, covered the pot with a cat-shaped tea cozy, and had just settled down to plow my way through the small print when the telephone rang.

Hi, Hannah, whatcha doing?

Looking over some stuff from Dr. Bergstrom. Im trying to decide about reconstructive surgery.

Id sure have it if I were you.

Easy for her to say. My sister Georgina was a C-plus-plus to my insignificant A-minus.

Listen to this. I dragged a chair over to the telephone and settled into it. These are my wishes if I am ever in a persistent vegetative state Yuck! Im nervous enough about going through more surgery without being reminded of all that! I tossed the document toward the kitchen table, where it ricocheted off a potted geranium, floated to the tiles, and slid under the refrigerator. It had been a little over a year since my mastectomy, and the memory of the surgery and my long recovery was still fresh in my mind. Im thinking about not going through with it, now that they mention the risk.

Georgina sounded bubbly. It must have been one of her up days. I could hear high-pitched squabbling in the background, the twins from the sound of it, Sean and Dylan, who were seven. It will be fine, Hannah. Youll be fine. Better than fine.

I rested my head against the wall with the receiver to my ear and didnt say anything. My sisters didnt talk to me very much about It these days. I suspect they had convinced themselves that if you didnt talk about It, It wouldnt exist.

Keeping the receiver clamped to my ear and uncoiling the cord as far as it would go, I walked to the refrigerator, stooped, and retrieved the document, shaking off a couple of greasy dust bunnies that clung to the edges. I think Ill add a line to this form, Georgina. If I should end up in a persistent vegetative state, Im saying I want them to start hydration and artificial nutrition and then I want you to remind Paul to call his lawyer and sue the pants off them.

Georgina chuckled. Ill try to remember that.

You better, or Ill come back to haunt you. I laid the document on the table near the Christmas cards and took another swig of tea. Hows it with you?

Busy. Trying to keep the kids out of Scotts hair while hes working.

Why doesnt Scott get an office outside the house? I dont know how you stand it! As much as Paul and I enjoy each others company, wed soon be at each others throats if I had him hanging around the house all day.

Scotts working on it. Hes got his eye on a place off York Road in Towson, and if he can land this big Mahoney account, hell have it made. Scott was a CPA, and I couldnt imagine how he managed to work, let alone land any big accounts, with three children underfoot. Sean had evidently popped Dylan, or vice versa, because there was a piercing wail and Georginas voice became muffled. Sean! Cut it out! Now! Trucks are for playing, not for hitting. And turn down that TV! Poor Georgina. I sometimes baby-sat for my nephews, identical down to the sandy hairs on their mischievous little heads, and it was exhausting. No wonder Georgina stayed so thin. And now there was baby Julie to trip over, born when Georgina was in her late thirties, just turned four and prancing about everywhere.

Over the background of the TV, playing cartoons at a decibel level high enough to rupture all eardrums within a half-mile radius, Georgina persisted, Help me remember something.

How do you stand the noise? I asked, but she didnt give any indication that she heard me.

Where did we live when I was two?

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