The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni

Author:Danielle Trussoni [Trussoni, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2023-06-13T00:00:00+00:00

Cam Putney watched Thessaly Moses. She began at one end of her townhouse and walked to the other, turning on lights until the place burned bright as the prison yard at night. Obviously, the woman was terrified. She’d picked up on his presence, felt him there even if she hadn’t actually seen him. Her first mechanism of defense was to expose every nook and cranny to light. Interesting, he thought as the second-floor lamps popped on, how light was always equated with safety—sunlight, a campfire, a nightlight in a child’s room. His daughter couldn’t sleep without one until she was seven years old. But light made Cam’s work easier. He saw everything with perfect clarity. The thick files Dr. Moses pulled from her bag and set on the dining room table next to a slim gold-tone MacBook Air, the same model he’d bought for his daughter when school went online during the pandemic. Light cleared away the shadows until nothing was hidden from Thessaly Moses. But nothing was hidden from Cam Putney, either.

The townhouse was part of a gated community about two miles from the prison, a collection of ten homes nestled in the dense Adirondack forest. Cam parked more than a mile away, hiding the Tesla in the trees. Brink’s mutt was barking like crazy in the trunk, banging around like a pinball. It hadn’t stopped for hours, and he was tempted to put it out of its misery. But Sedge wouldn’t like that. He’d told him to take Brink’s dog, not kill it, and Cam wasn’t going to risk making him angry over something like that. Better to let it tire itself out and fall asleep.

Cam walked around the townhouse, looking for a way in. He stayed in the shadows, careful to keep out of sight of the neighbors. The last thing he needed was someone calling the police. At the back of the house, he found a window that opened onto the living room. He could see Dr. Moses at the dining room table, her laptop open. She was trying to get into the NYS government database again, but, of course, her access was denied. He’d changed the password himself, cutting her off from all information relating to her patients, including Jess Price. It had been easy to break in, to change her password and redirect everything to his own account. If her laptop was anything like her desktop, she didn’t have any protection, no virus-detection software, not even a VPN. She clearly had no idea that everything she wrote, every case note, every personal email message, every social-media post, every cent she deposited in her bank account, everything was being monitored.

Suddenly, Dr. Moses stood and turned to the window. For an electrifying moment she stared at him, and he was sure she detected him behind the glass. But she turned, walked out of the room, her movements steady, without fear, and he knew she hadn’t registered his presence.

Cam went to work. First he tried the window. It was locked.

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