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SMOKE AND SHADOWS - TANYA HUFF

SMOKE AND SHADOWS

TANYA HUFF

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SMOKE AND SHADOWS - TANYA HUFF

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HECHO EN U.S.A.
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
 
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  
18  19 
♠♣♦♥
For Karen Lahey because until I met her I never made the 
connection that “people” write books. (Where I thought they 
came from, I have no idea.) Essentially, Karen’s responsible for 
my being a writer so if you’ve enjoyed any of my books, you 
should thank her. Thank you, Karen.
♠♣♦♥
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I’d like to thank Blanche McDermaid and the cast and crew of

A&E’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, who graciously allowed me to

hang about the set. I’d especially like to thank Matt and PJ, the

PAs, who were more than patient with two solid days of stupid

questions. Anything I got right, I owe to them. Mistakes are all

my own.

Chapter One

LEANING forward, brushing red-gold hair back off his face, he

locked eyes with the cowering young woman and smiled, teeth

too white within the sardonic curve of his mouth.

“There’s no need to be frightened,” he told her, his voice holding

menace and comfort equally mixed. “You have my word that

nothing will happen to you; unless—and I did warn you about this

—unless you’ve been holding out on me, Melissa.”

A full lower lip trembled as her fingers clutched the edge of the

park bench. “I swear I’ve told you everything I know!”

“I hope so.” He leaned just a little closer, his smile broadening as

she trembled. “I truly hope so.”

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“Cut! Mason, the girl’s name isn’t Melissa. It’s Catherine.”

Mason Reed, star of Darkest Night, straightened as the director

moved out from behind his pair of monitors. “Catherine?”

“That’s right.”

“Why does it matter, Peter? She’ll be dead by the end of the

episode.”

Safely out of Mason’s line of sight, the actress rolled her eyes.

“It matters because everyone else is calling her Catherine,” Peter

told him calmly, wondering, and not for the first time that

morning, what the hell was taking the tech guys so long to come

up with believable CGI actors. Or, conversely, what was taking

the genetics guys so long to breed the ego out of the ones they

had. Years of practice kept either thought from showing. “It

matters because Raymond Dark called her Catherine the last time

he spoke to her. And it matters because that’s her name; if we

start calling her by a different name, the audience will get

confused. Let’s do it one more time and then we’ll rig for close-

ups.”

“What was wrong with the last take?” Mason demanded, fiddling

with his left fang. “I liked the last take.”

“Sorge didn’t like the shadows.”

“They changed?”

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“Apparently. He said they made you look livide.”

Mason turned toward the director of photography who was deep

in conversation with the gaffer and ignoring him completely. His

expression suggested he was less than impressed with being

ignored. “Livid?”

“Not livid, livide,” Peter told him, tone and expression

completely nonconfrontational. They had no time to deal with

one of Mason’s detours into ego. “It’s French. Translates more or

less as ghastly.”

“I’m playing a vampire, for Christ’s sake! I’m supposed to look

ghastly.”

“You’re supposed to look undead and sexy. That’s not the same

thing.” Flashing their star a reassuring smile, Peter returned to the

director’s chair. “Come on, Mason, you know what the ladies

like.”

The pause while he considered it could have been scripted. Right

on cue: “Yes, I do. Don’t I?”

As the visibly soothed actor returned to his place on the park

bench, Peter sent a prayer of thanks to whatever gods were

listening, settled back behind his monitors, and yelled, “Tony!”

A young man standing just off the edge of the set, ear jack and

harried expression marking him as one of the crew, jerked as the

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sound of his name cut through the ambient noise. He stepped

around a five gallon jug of stage blood and hurried over, picking

his way carefully through the hydra snarl of cables covering the

floor.

“We’re not going to need Lee until after lunch.” Peter tore the

wrapper from a granola bar with enough force that the bar itself

jerked out of his hands, bounced off his thigh, and was heading

for the floor when Tony caught it. “Thank you. Is he here yet?”

“Not yet.”

“Fucking great.” An emphatic first bite. “Have someone in the

office call his cell and find out where the hell he is.”

“Do they tell him that you won’t need him until after lunch?”

“They remind him that according to the call sheets, his ass was

supposed to be in makeup by 11:00 . .. Tina, was what’s-her-

name wearing that color nail polish in scene sixteen? She looks

like her fingertips have been dipped in blood.”

The script supervisor glanced up from lining her pages. “Yes.”

Looking past Peter’s shoulder, she indicated that Tony should get

going. “I think dipped in blood is what they were trying for.”

Shooting Tina a grateful smile—it wasn’t always easy to tell

when Peter’s abrupt subject changes were, in fact, a dismissal—

Tony headed for the office. A muffled shriek from the actress

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playing Catherine stopped him at the edge of the park.

It seemed that Mason was getting playful. Testing out his teeth.

As the gaffer’s crew adjusted two of the lights, shadows danced

against the back wall of the set, looking on their own regard if

not ghastly then strange. Forming shapes that refused to be

defined, they moved in weirdly sinuous patterns, their edges

overlapping in ways normal shadows did not.

But this is television, Tony reminded himself as he left the park,

cut across Raymond Dark’s office, and hurried past the huge

mahogany coffin on his way to the production office. There’s

nothing normal about it.

The studio where CB Productions shot Darkest Night had been a

box warehouse in its previous incarnation and much of it still

looked the part. Chester Bane, creator and executive producer of

Darkest Night, as well as half a dozen other even less successful

straight to syndication series, had gone on record as saying that

he refused to spend money the viewer wouldn’t see on the screen.

His comments off the record had been more along the line of,

“I’m not spending another cent until I start seeing some return on

my fucking investment!” Since CB had only one actual volume

and that volume had been known to send the sound mixer

running for his board to slap the levels down, off the record

essentially meant that no reporter was taking notes within a two-

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kilometer radius.

Leaving the sound stage, Tony pushed his way through racks of

clothing—the wardrobe department’s solution to a ten-by-sixteen

office and no storage space. Given the perpetual shortage of

room, he was always fascinated to note that many of the

costumes hanging along both sides of the hall were costumes that

had never been used on the show. Granted, he covered enough

second unit work that he wasn’t on the set all the time, but he

somehow doubted he’d have forgotten the blue taffeta ball gown,

extra large, with size twelve stiletto-heeled shoes dyed to match.

Assorted World War II uniforms had been used for a flashback

sequence two episodes ago, but he had no idea when or if they’d

ever needed half a dozen private school uniforms. And he

couldn’t help but wonder about the gorilla suit.

Maybe a few shows down the road they were going after a whole

new demographic.

He’d been with the series as a production assistant since the

beginning—thirteen of twenty-two episodes in the can and word

was they were about to be picked up for a second season. There

was no shortage of television work in the Vancouver area—half

the shows that filled the US networks were shot there—and

there’d certainly been more high profile production companies

hiring, but Darkest Night had piqued his curiosity and once hired

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