The Star Family by Theresa Crater

Author:Theresa Crater [Crater, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theresa Crater

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Jane’s eggs were runny and her grits lumpy, but David ate them with a smile. “I’ve just been having protein shakes in the morning” she explained. “Well, mostly coffee and toast.”

“This is good,” David soaked up yoke with a piece of multi-grain toast.

She didn’t believe him. They cleaned up together, Jane comforted by the occasional bump against him as they loaded the dishwasher.

The doorbell rang and Jane peeped through the window to find a man in a crisp blue uniform standing at the door. She opened the door expecting an identifying badge of some company logo, but his uniform was blank. She asked for identification. He handed her his driver’s license. “I’m a private courier. Titlebaum, Smyth & Williams sent me.” He checked her ID, then gave her a box.

“Let me grab a pen.” She turned to go into the library, but the courier shook his head.

“No signatures.”

“Oh.” Jane turned back, surprised. “Thank you, then.”

David leaned in the dining room doorway, arms on either side. “I guess they don’t want this traced.” He carried the box into the library. “I should probably swing by home and change,” David said. “I’ve only got two music lessons this afternoon.”

Jane brushed her hands off on the sides of her jeans. “I’ll go through all this. See if I can figure out what had Lois so excited.”

David pointed an index finger at the box. “And what somebody doesn’t want you to find.”

“Thanks for all your help yesterday.” Jane walked him to the door and kissed him on the cheek.

“Should I drop by afterward?”

“Please,” Jane said, “We’re in this together, right?”

“Right.” He seemed relieved. “I’ll be done with my last student at three. You be careful.” He punctuated the last word with a tap on her shoulder.

After he left, Jane went back to the library and cut through the tape holding the box together. On top she found a typed note:

Attached you will find all records related to this case, plus old files. The group mentioned to you took all the attorney’s records, but someone took these home the night before the accident.

The attorney contacted an informant, Jeff Spencer, who worked for the CIA, then later corporate security. Also the attorney was in touch with a Herr Leinbach in Herrnhut, Germany. No idea what this was about. Contact information for both is attached.

Be careful!

Herrnhut. The first Moravian settlement almost a hundred years after the Thirty Years War. The first link.

No names had been used in the note other than the two contacts. There wasn’t even a signature. She supposed it could be traced to a particular printer, although this seemed unlikely given the sheer number in the world. Not like Perry Mason’s day. Jane looked beneath the note and found two files, one on Spencer and a thin one containing Leinbach’s address and phone number. Beneath that was a big stack of various documents all related to Jane.

She laid a few logs in the fireplace, wadded up the note along with some newspaper, and lit it.

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