I Am Your Judge: A Novel by Nele Neuhaus

Author:Nele Neuhaus [Neuhaus, Nele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, World Literature, European, German, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, International Mystery & Crime, Police Procedurals
ISBN: 9781466882874
Amazon: B0105SAQX2
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2016-01-12T06:00:00+00:00

Sunday, December 30, 2012

The dim light of dawn filtered through the slats of the blinds as Bodenstein opened his eyes and waited for his mind to disengage from the remnants of a confusingly realistic dream. It was rare for the cases he worked on during the day to bother him at night. Yet this time, some of the people who’d been baffling him and his team with riddles had slipped into his dreams, as if they wanted to tell him something. He turned over on his back, savoring the utter silence in the house. No child calling for him, no dog who wanted to be taken for a walk. And no Inka either. The other side of the bed was untouched. She’d sent him a text in the late afternoon saying that she had to go to Limburg on an emergency case and had no idea how late she would be. Since she didn’t want to wake him, she would sleep at home. The flimsiness of her excuse made Bodenstein feel depressed. In the past, she had often come to his place in the middle of the night, and she had a key to the front door. Why was she doing this? What had happened?

On Christmas Day, everything had seemed fine, but now she was suddenly retreating from him. Did she feel that he wasn’t paying enough attention to her? Or did she have doubts about a future together with him? He realized that she had a problem with Sophia, but he’d hoped that their relationship was strong enough to solve it. When he’d been married to Cosima, there were often minor fights and arguments, but with Inka, he had never had any clashes. She simply clammed up whenever something displeased her. What he’d at first taken as harmony now appeared to be more a result of her inability to resolve conflict, and even worse: her lack of interest. Inka was proud and independent. She had never had a long-term partnership and apparently hadn’t missed it, so why would she change now, in her early fifties? Had she grown too close to him? Did things seem confining? Was he too boring for her?

Bodenstein glanced at the digital display on his alarm clock. Eight o’clock. Today he wanted to pay a visit to Fritz Gehrke and try to talk with him about the Judge’s accusations from the obituary. He sat up, swung his legs over the edge of the bed, and went to the bathroom for a shower.

Why hadn’t Inka answered his good night text?

What exactly did he feel about her? It was hardly love; at any rate, not that deep, warm, heart-pounding feeling he had felt for so long with Cosima, even if it wasn’t necessarily reciprocated. His relationship with Inka had not developed out of stormy infatuation and passion. It was an old affection that had been rekindled through the marriage of their children. They both had their own work and their own lives, and they had never made a deliberate decision to become a couple.

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