Heaven's Keep by Krueger William Kent

Author:Krueger, William Kent [Krueger, William Kent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, thriller, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Crime, Adult, General
ISBN: 9781416556770
Amazon: 141655677X
Barnesnoble: 141655677X
Goodreads: 7143193
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2009-09-01T07:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

He’d called Liz Burns on his cell phone, and when he arrived she and Becca Bodine had their jackets on. They went out the back way to a path that wound through a wall of sand to the beach beyond. The sun was out, but they zipped their jackets against the cold wind screaming off the lake. The waves rose like white-maned lions and roared as they came ashore. Burns looked back to where her home was visible above the top of the dunes.

“Far enough?” she asked.

“Let’s keep walking,” Cork said.

“You haven’t explained what this is about.”

“It’s about the noise of the waves and the sound of the wind and how that might keep us from being overheard.”

“By whom?”

“They,” Cork said. “Whoever they are.”

“The ones who killed Sandy?” Becca asked.

“Yes, them. They’ve been very thorough so far. It’s hard to believe they’d be sloppy now. It’s quite possible that they’ve tapped Liz’s phone, maybe bugged her house. Yours, too, for that matter, Becca. Maybe mine by now.”

The sun was at their backs, well into its descent, and it gave no warmth. Beside them, the broad, frigid body of Superior fumed and spit. Ahead, the sandy finger of Park Point stretched beyond the limit of their seeing. They were alone on the beach.

“You said you had a son, Becca. Where is he?” Cork asked.

“With my sister in Hayward.”

“It might be a good idea if he stayed there for a while, and you stayed with Liz.”

“Why?”

“It might keep him from ending up as collateral damage.”

“Do you really think these people would go that far?” Burns asked.

“As nearly as I can tell, they’ve killed seven, maybe eight people already. Why would they stop now?”

“But what are they after?”

“I don’t know yet.”

Cork watched a gull negotiate the bitter wind and alight on the beach a dozen yards away. It snatched something from the sand and took off again. The wind kicked it, but the gull reeled, recovered, and soared away.

“Stilwell went down to Rice Lake to have a look at Sandy’s offices and his records. He called after he’d been to the airport to ask about the VCR at Becca’s place. And after that you didn’t hear from him again. Is that right?”

“Yes,” Burns said.

“Did Stilwell stay in Rice Lake during his investigation?”

Burns nodded. “He told me he’d checked in to a hotel and would probably be there overnight.”

“When you didn’t hear from him, did you call the hotel?”

Becca leaped in. “I called Rolfe Amundsen. He’s the chief of police in Rice Lake. Sandy knew him pretty well. I asked him to look into it. He did and told us that Mr. Stilwell had checked in to the Best Western and checked out the next day.”

“That’s it?”

“Yes.”

“Can you think of anything else that might help?”

Both women looked at each other, then at Cork, and it was clear they’d told him everything.

“You’re still going to Rice Lake tomorrow?” Burns said.

“Yes.”

“Shouldn’t we bring in the authorities or something?” Becca said.

“And tell them what? Our suspicions? I was a cop for a long time, Becca.

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