n't shut up . What did she think it was ... a date ? She was a hooker . He spotted her climbing the steep steps out of the MARTA subway station downtown . She got straight into his car with a big smile when he offered her a ride . Once inside , driving , he kept looking away from the road , stealing glances at her neck . Something about it drew him . Maybe the shape , the curve -- or maybe it was the soft hollow spot at the bottom . It was the only thing about her he could stomach . Watch Nancy talk about her new novel '' He lowered the automatic windows so her conversation would fly out into the night and he would n't have to hear it . Her teeth and lips revolted him . The shiny pink lip gloss she was wearing had thickened in spots across her lips and some had smeared onto her front teeth . Looking over at her as she talked , Cruise thought it was the most disgusting thing he had ever seen . Back to the task at hand . What was it ?
Editor 's note : Below is an excerpt from Nancy Grace 's new novel `` The Eleventh Victim . '' published by Hyperion . Nancy anchors `` Nancy Grace '' on HLN nightly at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET . HLN 's Nancy Grace makes her fiction debut with `` The Eleventh Victim . '' A little something . What was it ? Something ... some detail was wrong . . He could n't just leave the body lying there like that . There was something missing . It was biting at him . He 'd tried to go , walking back to his car in the dark twice now , but the nagging in his brain would n't let him leave until she was absolutely perfect . He looked at her lying there in the moonlight . Her dead body was absolutely stunning . Before , when she had been alive , sitting in the passenger seat of his car , talking and talking about her life and herself and her journey from Anniston , Alabama , to Atlanta to break into acting , he thought his head would blow up like a bomb . She just would