A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke

Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Suspense
ISBN: 9781982151683
Google: x_DwDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B08286GQ5P
Goodreads: 49090882
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-08-11T05:00:00+00:00

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THE SKY WAS clear and blue and bright as silk when the bow of my boat clunked against the tupelo stump. The strip of cloth was gone, but the blood had dried in the grainy wood.

“You’re sure this is it?” LeBlanc said.

“No doubt about it,” I replied.

“There’s stumps all over here. A bird could have smacked into this one. The cloth looked like it was from the girl’s dress?”

“Yes,” I said, my stomach hollow.

“Nope, this is a scam, Robo. Somebody is trying to mess up your head.”

“I saw what I saw.”

He stood up in the boat and used his pocketknife to cut a piece of the bloodied wood from the stump. He placed it in a Ziploc bag. “We’ll check it out at the lab. I could use something to eat. You hungry?”

“You’re an okay guy, Carroll,” I said.

“Say again?”

“You’re on the square.”

“If I were, I’d hang Shondell out to dry. But I want my job.”

“He’ll burn his own kite,” I said.

“Good luck on that.”

We drove to the levee and ate crab burgers and gumbo on the dock and watched a black kid fly a kite that resembled a quivering drop of bright red blood in an otherwise immaculate sky.

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