Bad Love: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman

Author:Jonathan Kellerman [Kellerman, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Thrillers
ISBN: 9780345463753
Amazon: B000FBFN9M
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00+00:00

I headed for Coldwater Canyon and the drive back to the city.

“Public school near Santa Barbara,” I said. “Lousy pay, so maybe she moonlighted at a local private place.”

“A reasonable assumption,” said Milo. He lowered the Seville’s passenger window, lit up a bad cigar, and blew smoke out at the hot valley air. The city was digging up Ventura Boulevard and sawhorses blocked one lane. Bad traffic usually made Milo curse. This time he kept quiet, puffing and thinking.

I said, “Shipler was a school janitor. Maybe he worked at de Bosch’s school, too. That could be our connection: they were both staffers, not patients.”

“Twenty years ago.… Wonder how long the school district keeps records. I’ll check, see if Shipler transferred down from Santa Barbara.”

“More reasons for me to drive up there,” I said.

“When are you doing it?”

“Tomorrow. Robin can’t make it—all for the best. Between trying to find remnants of the school and looking for Wilbert Harrison in Ojai, it won’t be a pleasure trip.”

“Those other guys—the therapists at the symposium—they worked at the school, too, right?”

“Harrison and Lerner did. But not Rosenblatt—he trained with de Bosch in England. I’m not sure about Stoumen, but he was a contemporary of de Bosch, and Katarina asked him to speak, so there was probably some kind of relationship.”

“So, one way or the other, it all boils down to de Bosch.… Anyone seen as being close to him is fair game for this nut.… Bad love—destroying a kid’s sense of trust, huh?”

“That’s the concept.”

I reached Coldwater and started the climb. He drew on his cigar and said, “Paprock was right about his wife. You saw the pictures—she was taken apart.”

“Poor guy,” I said. “Walking wounded.”

“What I told him, about her being dead when she was raped? True. But she suffered, Alex. Sixty-four stab wounds and plenty of them landed before she died. That kind of revenge—rage? Someone must have gotten fucked up big-time.”

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