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The Pact by Jennifer Sturman

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By Jennifer Sturman

A secret for an individual who has ever hated a friend's boyfriend. . . Rachel Benjamin and her pals will not be watching for Emma's marriage ceremony. The groom is a rat, and no-one can comprehend what Emma sees in him. So whilst he turns up lifeless within the morning of the rite, nobody within the marriage ceremony celebration is all that disillusioned. now not even Emma. Rachel, who had the great fortune to discover Richard floating facedown within the pool, is feeling as though she's woken up in an Agatha Christie novel. It does not support that everybody round her turns out to have a purpose for homicide. So, whereas the law enforcement officials detain Emma's friends and family at her remoted Adirondacks compound for the weekend, Rachel, an funding banker via alternate, makes like leave out Marple (minus the grey hair and brilliant footwear) and does a few digging of her personal. Her research will get particularly tough whilst Peter Forrest, the too-good-to-be-true top guy, seems to be the number-one love curiosity and her number-one suspect. And Rachel can not help remembering the solemn pact she and her associates made again in college--a promise to rescue one another from undesirable relationships, utilizing any capability required. Has an individual taken the pact too a ways?

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But Peter's words still didn't explain why Richard had asked him in the first place. Was Richard that bereft of close friends? It was entirely possible, I guessed; I was all too aware that to know Richard well was to despise him. Richard's tedious colleague stood to give the next toast, and Peter turned his head to listen. This provided me with an excellent opportunity to observe his profile, the strong set of his jaw, and the handful of prematurely gray hairs at his temple. I pretended to listen to the toast, laughing at the appropriate moments, but mostly I was busy looking at Peter's left hand, loosely gripping his champagne glass, and thinking about how nice his left earlobe was.

None of Richard's family was present, although I secretly wondered if he even had one. It was entirely possible that Richard had crawled out from under a rock somewhere, already fully formed. Meanwhile, half the Social Register was in attendance, not to mention the leading lights of the New York arts and literary scene, seated at round ta-bles covered with starched white linens and graced with extravagant floral arrangements. Perhaps the even greater surprise was that so many of them had made the long drive up to this remote corner of the Adirondacks, committing themselves to a weekend at one of the handful of motels and overly cutesy bed-and-breakfasts the area had to offer, not to mention battling rush-hour traffic on a Friday afternoon in August to make it here in time for cocktails and dinner.

In the early days of their relationship he romanced her aggressively. He deluged her with flowers and chocolates, intimate dinners, weekends in the country and extravagant gifts, and Emma was overwhelmed. For several months she was glowingly happy, and I was eager to believe that he was on the up and up, at least as far as Emma was concerned. I even tried to be nice to him when I saw him, which wasn't easy. Even before they were engaged, however, he rapidly downshifted into taking her for granted.

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