LUCY: Yes.
CASSIDY: And his wife is a deputy district attorney?
LUCY: Yes, Julia.
WHITE: So she would be working with your former brother-in-law, Andrew Stanton?
LUCY: Yes.
WHITE: You have a lot of connections with law enforcement.
LUCY: I do. My other sister, Carina, is a detective with the San Diego PD.
WHITE: And other than your oldest sister, you still talk to your family?
LUCY: Of course. I live with Dillon, and Patrick lives a few blocks away.
CASSIDY: Patrick—right. He works in Washington with your boyfriend, Sean.
LUCY: Yes.
CASSIDY: He had some medical issues—can you explain?
LUCY: I don’t see the relevance.
WHITE: We have your file, Ms. Kincaid. We know what happened on your high school graduation, and that Patrick was severely injured while trying to find you. What happened then goes to character.
LUCY: Patrick was in a coma for two years.
MARTINEZ: I didn’t hear you, I’m sorry.
LUCY: Patrick was injured in an explosion. He was in a coma for nearly two years. But he is doing great now. This really doesn’t have anything to do with whether I would make a good FBI agent.
CASSIDY: Ms. Kincaid, we have sympathy for what happened back then, and according to your statement, Patrick was in critical condition when Adam Scott, the man who kidnapped you, held your brother Dillon hostage. You were eighteen and I can only imagine the stress and pain you were suffering when you shot and killed Mr. Scott.
LUCY: The FBI ruled the shooting justified and in self-defense.
WHITE: Even though Mr. Scott didn’t have a weapon.
LUCY: I didn’t know that at the time. He was going to kill my brother.
WHITE: You stated then that you don’t remember anything from when you left your house until after you shot Mr. Scott six times at point blank range.
LUCY: Yes.
WHITE: This goes to stress. Your job in the FBI will very likely be stressful. Do you think you’d be prone to blacking out when you are under extreme stress?
LUCY: I—
CASSIDY: Meredith, I think—
WHITE: It goes to character and mental competence, Nolan.
LUCY: I went through every psychological evaluation the FBI threw at me. I passed. I’m not the same person I was seven years ago.
MARTINEZ: Why do you want to join the FBI?
LUCY: I wrote on my application—
MARTINEZ: We know what you wrote on your application. A very generic comment, considering your background. Why do you really want to be an FBI agent? What do you hope to gain from the Bureau?
LUCY: I understand people. I understand criminals and how they think, and I understand victims. Too many people stand back and do nothing when others need help. Did I want to be in the FBI ten years ago? No—I spent my time with friends, in the pool, training for my swim team, and my dream was to go to Georgetown and study international relations, or be a diplomat or linguist. My brothers and sisters, they were the ones who cared. They were the people who did what I was too selfish to consider. And now? There’s nothing I want to do except put predators behind bars. Whether the criminals are stealing the retirement money of the elderly or killing children or raping women, I want to be part of the solution, not just one more person ignoring violence. I couldn’t ignore it if I wanted to.
If you tell me I’m not fit to be an FBI agent, so be it. But everything I have done in the last seven years has put me before you. I interned with the Senate Judiciary Committee because I wanted to better understand how the decisions in congress affected national law enforcement. I worked a year with the Arlington Sheriff’s department because I wanted to understand the nuts and bolts of local law enforcement. I’m still on their volunteer water rescue team because I’m a certified diver. And I just finished my year-long internship at the D.C. Medical Examiners Office because I wanted to understand what happens on the back end, so to speak. I even obtained a certificate as an assistant pathologist so I could assist in autopsies.
Everything I’ve done was to be a better FBI Agent. And what do I want to gain? Nothing—except the satisfaction of being a part of the solution.
Catch up on all of Allison Brennan’s books and characters!
LUCY KINCAID SERIES
Love Me to Death
Lucy Kincaid’s past comes back to haunt her when she realizes someone is using her to target paroled sex offenders. Setting: Washington D.C.
Love Is Murder
In this exclusive electronic novella that takes place a year before the events in Love Me to Death, Lucy Kincaid and her brother Patrick take a much-needed vacation at a remote lodge outside Lake Tahoe. But their fun is cut short when a snowstorm and dead newlywed turn their retreat into a danger zone. Setting: Sierra Nevada Mountains
Kiss Me, Kill Me
Lucy Kincaid and Sean Rogan search for a missing teenager in New York City and find themselves in the middle of the FBI manhunt for the Cinderella Strangler, a serial killer targeting young women at rave parties. Setting: Virginia and New York City
FBI Trilogy (2009)
Sudden Death: By-the-book FBI special agent Megan Elliott is forced to team with burn-the-book mercenary Jack Kincaid to stop a pair of brutal killers targeting decorated soldiers. Setting: California and Texas
Jack Kincaid, mercenary/former Special Forces
Megan Kincaid, FBI agent, supervisor
Fatal Secrets: Fiery ICE agent Sonia Knight battles cool-headed FBI agent Dean Hooper when his operation threatens her undercover investigation into a major human trafficking ring in Sacramento, California. Setting: Sacramento, California
Dean Hooper, FBI agent (assistant director)
Sonia Knight, ICE agent
Cutting Edge: Domestic terrorism expert, FBI agent Nora English, calls in computer security expert Duke Rogan to help her stop a group of animal rights activists who’ve turned from civil disobedience to murder. Setting: Northern California
Duke Rogan, private security
Nora English, FBI agent
PRISON BREAK TRILOGY (2008)
Killing Fear: An earthquake at San Quentin enables a dozen killers on death row to escape. Theodore Glenn vowed pay back to all who put him in prison, including the detective who arrested him and the key witness—a stripper—who testified against him. Setting: San Diego, California
Will Hooper, detective
Robin McKenna, club owner/former stripper
Tempting Evil: An escaped convict has tracked down the woman of his dreams, romance writer Joanna Sutton, at her family’s secluded Centennial Valley lodge in the middle of a blizzard. Setting: Centennial Valley, Montana
Tyler McBride, sheriff
Joanna Sutton, romance writer
Playing Dead: A disgraced cop must convince his daughter, Claire O’Brien—who testified against him—that he didn’t kill her mother by tracking down the law student who has evidence to exonerate him. Two problems: the student is dead, and an FBI agent is dating Claire. Setting: Sacramento, California
Mitch Bianchi, FBI agent
Claire O’Brien, private investigator
NO EVIL TRILOGY (2007)
Speak No Evil: San Diego detective Carina Kincaid is certain the much-older ex-boyfriend of an eighteen-year-old college student is guilty of her murder, but Montana sheriff Nick Thomas vows to prove his war hero brother is innocent. Setting: San Diego, California
Nick Thomas, sheriff
Carina Kincaid, detective
See No Evil: Deputy DA Julia Chandler reluctantly asked her ex-boyfriend, P.I. Connor Kincaid, to help prove her niece is innocent of killing her sexually abusive step-father, but they uncover a far deadlier group of teenage thrill killers who have no fear or remorse. Setting: San Diego, California
Connor Kincaid, private investigator/former cop
Julia Chandler, deputy district attorney
Fea
r No Evil: When his kidnapped eighteen-year-old sister Lucy will be killed live on the Internet in forty-eight hours, forensic psychiatrist Dillon Kincaid must get into the mind of a psychopath to figure out his next move, while also convincing renegade FBI Agent and computer expert Kate Donovan to help. Setting: San Diego, California, Mexico, Seattle, Washington
Dillon Kincaid, forensic psychiatrist
Kate Donovan, FBI agent
PREDATOR TRILOGY (2006)
The Prey: Rowan Smith, former FBI agent turned crime fiction writer wakes up one morning to discover a vicious killer is using her books as blueprints for murder. Setting: Malibu, California
John Flynn, private security/former DEA agent
Rowan Smith, crime fiction writer/former FBI agent
The Hunt: The sole survivor of a serial killer who hunts women in the Montana wilderness, Miranda Moore, tries to find his latest captive before it’s too late, while trying to prove to the man who had her kicked out of the FBI Academy that she’s up to the task. Setting: Gallatin County, Montana
Quinn Peterson, FBI agent
Miranda Moore, Search & Rescue
The Kill: When FBI lab technician Olivia St. Martin was five years old, she testified against her sister’s murderer and sent him away for life. Now, after thirty years in jail, DNA evidence proves his innocence and Olivia sets out to find the real killer who has eluded authorities by crossing state lines repeatedly. Setting: Seattle, Washington
Zack Travis, detective
Olivia St. Martin, FBI laboratory scientist
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