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  “There’s no rush,” Liss said. “And I don’t want a diamond. Too flashy.”

  Aunt Margaret, overhearing, caught each of them by an elbow and propelled them out of the lobby and into the west wing. “I happen to know,” she said, “that the hotel gift shop carries a very nice selection of jewelry…including a certain tourmaline ring that my niece has had her eye on.”

  Acknowledgments

  A special thank you goes to Patricia Ruocco, who was the winning bidder in an auction at Malice Domestic 21(2009) to “name the kitten.” Glenora is named for Patricia’s Scottish grandmother, Glenora Jane Margaret Tweedie Treadwell.

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