206 Bones (2009) by Reichs Kathy

Author:Reichs, Kathy [Kathy, Reichs,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-03-26T18:09:30+00:00

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KEISER HAD A HIDEY-HOLE. TYPICAL CLAUDEL. ARRIVING AT THE lab, he got straight to the facts. No Bonjour. No Comment ca va?

Surprised, I laid down the vertebra I was scoping with a hand lens.

The building managers a guy named Luigi Castiglioni, Lu to his close amici. Yesterday, Im doing follow-up with Lu, and the whole interview somethings bugging me, like hes looking different than I remember. That, and the fact hes jumpy as hell. When I squeeze hard, the asshole lets slip hes just back from a six-month sojourn in the old country.

Quick calculation. July to January. That put Lu in Italy from the time Keiser disappeared through the time Claudel began to investigate.

I started to ask a question. Claudel held up a manicured hand.

So I ask him. Hows that work, you being overseas and here fixing toilets at the same time? Lu admits hes got a twin. Eddie. You believe that? Lu and Eddie. Sounds like some cheesy vaudeville routine.

I didnt interrupt.

Conscientious citizen that he is, Lu doesnt want to get canned while hes on sabbatical, so he talks brother Eddie into acting as super in his absence. The scam flies. No one picks up on the swap. But the thing is, Lus worked the building for twenty-two years. Probably schmoozing for tips. Whatever. He gets to know the tenants, learns what theyre up to. Brother Eddie doesnt know jackshit.

I got the picture. Lu revealed something Eddie didnt know. New search. Bingo.

Where was she? I asked.

Claudel shook his head, as though amazed at the foibles of his fellow man.

Turns out the old broad kept a getaway near Lac Memphremagog.

I let the old broad reference pass. She went there to paint.

Claudel dipped his chin. Yeah. The place started life as her third husbands hunting shack.

Third?

Got the lineup from the kids, Otto and Mona. Theyre a prize pair, by the way. Gotta revisit that.

Oh?

Just a gut. Problem is, both were thousands of clicks from Montreal in Alberta when Mama dropped off the radar. Theres no evidence of missing money. Still, Im examining financials, looking for secret accounts, suspicious transfers or withdrawals, major debts, big purchases. Any flags over the past three months. Changes in routine, spending habits, income. Its a long shot, but weve got no short ones. Im also checking the possibility of nasty habitsaddiction, gambling, the usual. Doing the same for the stepson, Myron Pinsker.

What about the three husbands?

Uri Keiser was numero uno. They married in fifty-eight, divorced in seventy-eight. He remarried in seventy-nine, moved to Brooklyn in eighty-two. Some bad blood there. Keisers been in New York ever since. Pinsker was next. Married in eighty-four, taken out by an aneurysm in ninety-six.

Hed be Myron Pinskers father?

Yeah. Named Myron, too. Why would you keep saddling kids with a tag like Myron? That a Jewish thing?

I dont think so.

Hubby three was Samuel Adamski. Keiser married him in ninety-eight. Interesting sidebar, the guy was fourteen years younger than his bride. She was sixty-one. He was forty-seven.

Is Adamski still around?

Died in a boating accident in 2000.

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