Encore in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel: 56

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At Lane’s building, Eve gets a feel for the elevator and security – Eliza has access to a private elevator, which nobody used the day or evening of the murder. Eve assigns officers to babysit her until they can bring her back in the following day, beginning with Officers Carmichael and Shelby, and tells Peabody to take the media briefing while she heads to interview Proctor before updating Lane.

Eve doesn’t think she was close enough to Brant to knock the drink away in time, but is still leaning away from her as the killer. The night Leah Rose died, the night of the final dress rehearsal, he saw Bernstein go at it with Lane, slapping her. She says Eve got lucky here and there and then married lucky on top of it, now she’s just trying to get another notch in her belt, that’s all Eliza is to her, and she will see Eve crushed at the bottom when she’s done, and when she’s done she will sue her for every penny Roarke has. It's also one day of the week off from the actual calendar, but the desk clerk at the West End Hotel says the day she sees Bernstein leaves in a maid's uniform to clean Lane's penthouse is a Monday, and later Eve jokingly asks somebody where his cousin was on Monday between 2100 and 2300. Eve lucks into a superfan of The Icove Agenda at the bank, who thinks she’s there to investigate clones, and gives her all the information she needs about Bernstein's banking activity without requiring a warrant, because "This isn't just police business.

Peabody thinks between it being 25 years and the revival, Bernstein is convinced that it’s time to avenge her daughter’s death by killing Lane, and managed to get into the party as a plus-one. The body wouldn’t have been found until much later but Lane didn’t realize Debra had turned on the taps to run a bath because there was too much background noise.

It can be as simple as realizing that if you’re running late you need to text that person that you’ll miss dinner to understanding that you have to be present for things that are important to them and in all cases very much vice versa.

Lane was a demanding and hard working star and she achieved the reputation of being a bitch and was proud of it. She and her team uncovered the connection between Rose and Novak, but Nadine hasn’t contacted her yet; Eve advises giving her a pass for at least a day, letting her know she and her husband are not suspects – no motive, no evidence. One little quibble that I have is Eve’s lack of comprehension of ‘popular references’ – she comes across as being a bit thick and she is not - she is very intelligent- In one of the books she did not even know that Springsteen was referred to as ‘The Boss’ – c’mon now, gimme a feckin’ break. She threatened to ruin him, to tell people he molested her daughter, raped her unless he cut professional ties. Eve and Peabody watch the security feed, seeing Bernstein enter the Lane-Fitzhugh apartment as a cleaner, carrying her big-ass bag that holds the cocktail dress and makeup and seeing her leave, now dressed up, before Brant took the drink to Lane.