The Measure of the Moon by Lisa Preston

Author:Lisa Preston [Preston, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503937574
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2017-04-17T21:00:00+00:00

After handling a minor traffic accident, kids smoking outside the supermarket and a squabble between roommates, Osten drove past the town’s little marina. By now he could spot Brayton’s powerboat in slip B10. He thought about a boat he’d never seen, Brayton’s powerboat back in Virginia, back with the first wife, the one who supposedly fell off and drowned while Brayton was napping in the cabin. And he thought about the Virginia cop’s email.

I didn’t believe him. He refused a polygraph. That was pretty much it. Made him rich.

Hey, if it worked in one ocean, it could work in another. Suppose Brayton’s first wife hadn’t fallen off a boat in the Atlantic while he slept? Suppose Brayton had pushed her. Now he owned a boat on this salt bay, accessing the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and had another missing wife.

If he could get witnesses that saw Brayton take his boat out around the time his wife went missing, if he could catch Brayton in a demonstrable lie, well, he’d have something to work with. Until yesterday—as the sheriff and the detective pointed out—he had almost nothing. Then the gay guy at the clinic called. If he hadn’t, it would be easier to put away the niggling suspicion. Now, the worst possibility pestered.

I did counsel her that when a woman tries to leave is the most dangerous time, that that’s when a domestic abuser is most likely to kill. I made it clear to her that she needed an exit strategy, but I don’t think she’d gotten there.

And when the guy, who was some kind of a nurse-doctor, shared this confidential exchange, Osten wondered if she announced her exit, if it was the precipitating factor in the final dispute. Brayton had not mentioned an argument or a divorce plan. He specifically denied it, just said she was missing.

But Osten wasn’t the only guy in town who figured Brayton had more than a little to do with the wife’s disappearance. There was the guy at the clinic.

Thank God he’d called.

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