Death on the Family Tree by Patricia Sprinkle

Author:Patricia Sprinkle [Sprinkle, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780060819682
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

When will we finally come together? Can you care for me as I care for you? Will you ever come to me of your own free will? I do not deserve that you even look my way, but I shall die if I do not possess you—no, never possess, but rather discover together what love can be. I nearly despair when I think that may never be. But L2assures me it will, that I must only be patient until you are ready. And because L2knows you so much better than I, I will be patient.

Surrounded by the music of rain on the roof and hitting the patio below, Katharine let the sheet fall to her lap and sat staring into the darkness beyond her window. This was such a letdown. Either Georg Ramsauer had fooled his fellow archaeologists into thinking he was keeping a detailed account of their work while he was actually conducting an affair, or the diary belonged to someone else—probably Carter. Georg Ramsauer had twenty-four children and a full-time job. When would he have had time for a passionate affair?

Still, a man with twenty-four children must have an enormous sex drive.

And why should Carter keep his diary in German? To practice the language while he was in Vienna? Why would Lucy have kept it all these years?

One thing made it likely that this was Carter’s diary: the name L2 scattered throughout. Katharine thumbed through several more pages and saw it on almost every one. That was probably his code name for Lucy, something they had dreamed up when they were children. Was Sara Claire his intended love? Was he far more involved with her than Dutch had known or been willing to accept?

Katharine had a hard time picturing her aunt ever inspiring that kind of passion. Sara Claire had about as much warmth and sex appeal as a Canadian lake in February, and her nose was so permanently tilted up in scorn that Susan and Jon used to giggle when it rained and say, “Call Aunt Sara Claire and warn her not to go out. She could drown.” Yet she must have had something in her college days, if Dutch had been, in his own words, “sweet on her.”

Katharine rested her head against the chaise and watched drops slide down the window. Their journey was erratic and unpredictable, without pattern. She had grown up believing that human lives have a pattern, that there is purpose in everything. Now she was losing the pattern of her life—and realized she had never known that of her parents and their friends. Had Dutch looked at Sara Claire over the years and regretted he had lost her to Walter? Had she, in fact, become the person she did because she married Walter? It was all so long ago.

“Why didn’t I ask more questions when they were all still alive?” Katharine murmured.

Because you cannot ask what you do not know needs asking.

She used to be pleased that none of her elderly relatives ever got to the stage where they lived in the past instead of the present.

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