Blood Grove by Walter Mosley

Author:Walter Mosley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2021-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

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There was a hotel called the Pink Palace on the Venice boardwalk back then. It was run by Esther Maron, a woman who had once been married to a friend of mine who died. The Palace was a more or less safe haven for anyone wanting to drop out of sight.

“Will this do?” I asked the mother whose grief had finally come to an end. We were standing in the parlor of a fairly large two-room suite. From the third-floor window you could see the rippling Pacific in fading summer light.

“It’s beautiful here,” she said sadly.

“You know the drill, right?”

“Don’t talk to anyone I know. Definitely don’t tell anyone where I am. Just look at the water and wait for you to call or come.”

“Me or Fearless Jones.”

I put a hand on her shoulder. This caused her to turn away from the eternal sway of blue.

“I could have saved Craig if he told me the truth,” I said.

“I’m not lying to you, Easy. I’m not no fool.”

“I want you to stay here until I say otherwise,” I told my dead client’s mother.

“I might decide to go out to the desert,” she said. “Palm Springs. A place called the Summer Sands. If I’m gone from here that’s where I’ll be.”

“Anybody else know to look for you there?”

“Only Craig.”

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