Deceptive Innocence (11 page)

Oh.

I look down at the drawing again. The picture it’s modeled after is so famous I’m embarrassed I hadn’t figured it out before. And yet I can’t help but double check. I pull out my phone and do a Google search, hoping that by some miracle I’m wrong. That I’m misremembering.

But I’m not misremembering anything, because there she is: Mata Hari, wearing the exact costume I’m wearing in the drawing.

Mata Hari the seductress.

Mata Hari the whore.

Mata Hari . . . the Frenchwoman who worked as a double agent for the Germans in World War I.

Mata Hari the traitor.

My hand is shaking now as I move the letters around. I KNOW HER . . .

. . . and there it is. The solution to the anagram.

The memory of Lander’s warm touch against my skin now turns very, very cold. His prints chill me as I recoil from the drawing. I want to throw up. I want to run from the room. But instead I just read the unscrambled note again and again. Four little words:

I KNOW HER IDENTITY.

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acknowledgments

I
want to
thank Rod Lurie for all his support and feedback and for putting up with me when I was completely freaking out about deadlines. And I want to thank my friends and family for being so patient and understanding when they didn’t hear from me for weeks on end because I was completely caught up in writing. I don’t know what I would do without any of you!

about the author

K
yra Davis is
the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Just One Night,
the critically acclaimed Sophie Katz mystery series, and the novel
So Much for My Happy Ending
. Now a full-time author and television writer, Kyra lives in the Los Angeles area with her son and their lovable leopard gecko, Alisa.

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