Sudden Death by David Rosenfelt

Author:David Rosenfelt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery, Fiction - Psychological Suspense, Crime & mystery, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Fiction : Mystery & Detective - General, Attorney and client, Legal, Fiction, New Jersey, Legal stories, Mystery fiction, Football players, Carpenter, Crime & Thriller, General, Football players - Crimes against, Andy (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780446612876
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2006-05-01T07:00:00+00:00

A TRIAL IS AN incredibly tense, hectic process, yet for me there’s something calming and comforting about it. It’s the only time in my life when I have a rigid schedule, a self-discipline in my actions, and it’s a refreshing change.

Tonight is a perfect example. We have our team meeting at my house, after which Kevin leaves and Laurie and I settle down to dinner. We have take-out pizza, though hers is of the vegetarian variety and in my humble opinion not worthy of the name “pizza.” Luciano Pizza or Jeremiah Pizza or whoever the hell invented it would cringe at the sight of the healthy mess that comes out of Laurie’s pizza box.

Laurie turns out the overhead lights and instead lights candles she had put on the table. It makes it a little tough to see the pizza, but she seems to like it that way. We talk about the case, about what’s going on in the world, about how great Tara is, or anything else that comes to mind. Everything except the Findlay situation.

After dinner my ritual is to go into the den, turn on CNN or a baseball game as background noise, and read and reread our files on the Schilling case. In order to react in a courtroom the way I want to react, I need to know every detail of our case, every scrap of information we have.

Each night, I go over the next day’s witnesses, as well as an area of our investigation that I select more or less randomly. Tonight I’m going over Kevin’s and Adam’s reports on their work in locating and talking to Kenny’s friends and acquaintances, especially those he shared with Preston.

At ten-thirty Laurie and I go up to bed, where I continue to go through the papers. She makes a phone call, which is disconcerting, since she speaks to Lisa, a high school girlfriend from Findlay. Laurie is making real connections, or reconnections, back there, and the knowledge of it makes it a little hard for me to concentrate.

I’m trying extra hard to focus, since I have the uneasy feeling that there is something in these particular reports that is significant and that I’m missing. I’m about to discuss it with Laurie, now off the phone, when Tara starts to bark. Moments later the doorbell rings.

“Let me get it,” Laurie says, which means she’s at least a little worried that it could relate to Quintana.

I’d love to say, “Go ahead,” but I’m too macho for that, so I throw on a pair of pants and go downstairs. I get to the door just as the bell rings again, and I ask, “Who is it?”

“Marcus” is the answer from the other side of the door.

I turn on the porch light, move aside the curtain, and sure enough, there is Marcus. I open the door. “What’s wrong?” I ask.

“Rope,” says Marcus.

“Rope?”

“Rope.”

“What about rope?” This conversation is not progressing that well.

“He wants to know if you have any rope,” says Laurie from the top of the steps.

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