hulking coffee dark eyes , slit and nicked bronze skin , a straightened out and a bit twisted and crippled throat , a yawning and partly-open mouth , off-the-latch eyelids , blood yielding and spewing hands , deformed and tortuous feet , a paper-thin-like but lofty body , the unheard-of and dead woman gawps direct at kelli koni , private investigator , who is yet to look over his puzzling and inexplicable death .