05)  He was known to be at a houseboat not registered to him, where enough blood was found to indicate a murder took place.  But not his, seeing as he's alive.

Couldn't he just give a sample of his blood to prove that all the blood was his?

Personally, I would assume the immediate reaction is that Harry faked his own death.  And even showing off the scars of the entry & exit points, won't likely sway that opinion.

I don't think he'll be accused of murder for this, but I would think faking you own death is frowned upon by the police.  Plus, he likely owes back taxes.  Since he's been gone a year.

This is an acronym rich environment, as is most of the internet.  Heaven knows it can all get confusing for the new user.

Myself, I'm not confused.  But I could see where a new user might be.  Point of me raising this thread.

TT isn't the same thing as LOL, in that it's actually is part of the rules.  However, at the time I posted this, TT isn't actually mentioned in the rules (at least when I started this thread it wasn't).  Yes, its called Touchy Topics, but that isn't going to make a leap to TT in most minds.

It might help to see what prompted this.  In this thread things derailed so much that Shecky warned about TT twice.  However, given the low post counts of some of the users, it wouldn't should me to learn that a few didn't know what was being talked about.

(Heck, some were surprised to learn that Shecky was a Moderator, so that didn't help.  While Bartender & Warden are nifty titles, I don't suppose you could bold italic them, or something.  Otherwise, they look like a regular user description.)

Kevin
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Odd thought, but are ther any examples of Harry getting odd treatment from animals, while he had Lashiel's shadow?  Or the Denarians themselves?

Really a stretch, that I don't give credence myself, but could Marci have Lashiel's coin?  People are dead certain that WOJ is that Lash & Lashiel are in the book.  I've only seen the Lash comment & am apt to believe he might have only meant Lash.

Still, I suppose it's worth looking into.  Maybe I'll add Small Favor & Death Masks to my reread lists.

No not impossible that she's telling the truth, just a bit unlikely.  And generally, Butcher hasn't had much in the way of unlikely things happen.

I mean, to save up money like that & never get a decent place to live, seems odd.  To me it seems like dream job & just walking away seems like a big deal.  Yet Marci did it without any second thought?

Then 2 characters act like there might be something up with her?  Another red flag for me.

All that means for me, is that I intend to keep an eye on her.  She might be legit, bit I don't think so.  As for who's pulling her strings, no idea.

I've known dogs that jumping is a sign of affection (can't recall if there's anything that supports this from White Night, but plan to look at Toto's behavior from said book), given the later sentiment of snuggling next to Will, I assumed the reation carried over to both forms.

Since it's only indicated that Toto is growling at Marci specifically, I took that as a clue.

Toto growled both at Felicia the White Court vampire...  And Marci.  He (she?) could also detect Dresden's ghost.  And note that he wasn't aggressive to all werewolves, as Toto really seems to like Will.

Going back to Aftermath, there was something about Marci that Murphy just plain didn't like.  She put the poor girl through the ringer, with the threshold test & questioned her pretty thoroughly.

She also supposedly walked away from a sweet job at ILM, but lived out of the equivalent of a cardboard box.  To the extend that she's got a bit of cash saved up, living on the interest.  Then suddenly had a change of heart, and came to the conclusion that it was more important to be back with the other werewolves.

True, she did have a 'thing' with Andi, and after Kirby's death, that might be all there is to it.  Still, even if Andi & Marci were close, dropping everything is usually a big deal, and Marci didn't even seem to question her motives.

Murphy is pretty on the paranoid these days & Toto...  is kinda insane.  So, there might be nothing to this.

But what if there isn't?  What if we're being given hints that Marci is something of a double agent, and we're not noticing them?

The last time this was discussed, I suggested the possibility that she might be one of Marcone's people.  Aftermath, seen from a certain perspective, seems to suggest that Marcone has talents of his own (Gard talking about having their troubleshooters being taken, and the Formor only seemed interested in taking talents.).

Alternatively, she might have had her brains redecorated, maybe exactly like Luccio. 

Or maybe something else.  Or maybe nothing.

One thing that bothers me more than most things, how did Marci know that Murphy was being fired?  It just barely happened, but in Aftermath, Marci clearly knew.  Maybe Will brought it up in his phone messages, but it seems like a kind of detail that he wouldn't share while his wife was missing.

Kevin

Jim was not at the Penguin Panel, it was just Anne, and another editor and marketing person from Penguin whose names I forget now. They did give away two copies of Ghost Story though.

No big loss then, since I already had gotten mine by that point.