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“You know,” Clive said as the two riders disappeared, “there were a lot of things to worry about with this project, but I never expected something like this.” === What had started out as a textbook-perfect archaeological dig was rapidly turning into a nightmare. === “The question is not whether he fell. The question is how. ” === …tried to tamp down her nervousness. The practice interrogation sessions at the Academy had been straightforward, leaving her ill-prepared for the sort of investigation she was engaged in now — in which she could see no motive, develop no hypothesis of a crime. All she had were a lot of disconnected facts and coincidences, along with a gut feeling. One of the things she’d been taught at the Academy was to clarify the facts, work chronologically, and — especially — resist forming ideas.