The Lies You Wrote by Brianna Labuskes EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Brianna Labuskes
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RAISA
FBI forensic linguist Raisa Susanto tucked the twenties into her bra strap as
the men gathered around her. They were eager for a show, and she would
give them one.
She hopped off the desk where she’d been sitting cross-legged and
walked over to the glass board that spanned most of the wall of the Seattle
FBI field office’s main room.
There was one sentence written there.
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Raisa grinned as she
turned back to the group. Six G-men stood in a half circle around her, all of
them watching this play out with varying levels of smugness and doubt.
As a forensic linguist, she was used to skepticism. These field agents
didn’t exactly like people they deemed paper pushers, let alone someone
who promised she could name a suspect on a sentence or two alone.
Raisa didn’t have any allies in the bureau who would go to bat for her,
either. Because of how specialized her field was, the FBI lent her out to
cases rather than stationing her in one region. Making friends—or even
cultivating some friendly colleagues—required spending more than one
investigation with the same people.
But Raisa had found ways to earn respect and earn it quickly. What
she was about to do amounted to a parlor game that she would never have
agreed to perform had there been another linguist in the room. She did have
some shame, after all. While it might be a cheap ploy, though, it had about a
hundred percent success rate in impressing laypeople.
Most of the time, she saved this particular trick for when she was
working with a team and needed them to trust her without question. She
wasn’t working with these guys. In fact, she’d only stopped by the field
office to wrap up some paperwork. But one of them had made some snide
under-his-breath comment about her being a waste of space and Raisa
wasn’t one to back down from a chance to put him in his place.
She cracked her neck, scanning the group. The ability to read people
quickly had been a survival mechanism back in foster care. After losing her
parents to a car crash at the tender age of ten, Raisa had been dumped in
enough broken homes to be able to tell in a single glance who posed a
threat.
These men gathered around her now were as easy to understand as the
sentence on the board.
There were six of them. Three wanted to be convinced; one was along
for the ride; one was skeptical but wasn’t going to be rude about it. And
then there was the cocky one, who was staring at her with such contempt
she started to wonder if he’d had a bad run-in with a linguist in his life.
She didn’t even need to look at the board to know he was the one
who’d written the sentence.
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