Uncharted Waters by Rosemary McCracken

Author:Rosemary McCracken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, crime, suspense, murder, mystery, crime fiction, sleuth, financial planning, financial crime, white collar crime
Publisher: Rosemary McCracken

Chapter Twenty-nine

Dr. Vivian Sisto ran her medical practice from a suite in a brick low-rise on Bathurst Street. At 10 the next morning, Rose was waiting for me on the third floor. She took me inside the suite and locked the door behind us.

She had positioned a chrome name plate I had given her a few years before on the reception desk. Rose Sisto, Administrative Assistant, it read. A nice touch.

I followed her into an office behind the reception room, where Stéphane was seated at a large metal desk. He raised a Starbucks cup in greeting.

“Rose will talk to Lukas in here. Pat, you and I will be in the examination room next door.” He pointed to the wall on his left. “We’ll hear what they’re saying over the speaker phone. It’s on low in there.”

He pointed to shelves at the side of the desk. “My audio recorder is behind these books,” he said.

We went over the points we wanted Rose to cover with Lukas. When we heard knocking on the suite door, Stéphane and I hurried into the next room. I locked the door behind me, and turned off the light and my cell phone.

I heard Rose let Lukas in.

“Good morning, Rose,” he said. “You must be related to Dr. Vivian Sisto.”

“My daughter.”

He chuckled. “My mom and I will be working together, too.”

“We’ll go into Vivian’s office,” Rose said. “It’s more comfortable in there.”

He followed her into the office. I hoped he couldn’t hear my heart hammering through the wall.

Over the speaker phone, we heard Rose launch into why she wanted to work with a financial planner. “I thought I’d like to work with a woman,” she concluded, “but some of what you said yesterday caught my interest.”

I pictured Lukas preening like a peacock in the next room.

“I’ve narrowed my search to a handful of advisors,” Rose went on, “and Pat Tierney, the woman you were telling me about yesterday, is one of them. I met her when she worked at Norris Cassidy.”

“Rose, remember what I told you? Pat is in serious trouble. She won’t be in business long. She was skimming client accounts. Do you know what skimming client accounts means?”

Beside me, I saw Stéphane shake his head. “Hang on,” he whispered.

“Tell me what that means,” Rose said.

“It means that Pat was siphoning earnings from her clients’ investments and reporting lower amounts. She stole her clients’ money. Do you want to work with someone who would steal from you?”

“Where did you hear that?” Rose’s voice was sharp. “A friend of mine was Pat’s client at Norris Cassidy. She knows nothing about skimming or any other financial wrongdoing. She asked what proof there is against Pat. I want to know what proof there is, too.”

“I’ve spoken to some of Pat’s victims,” Lukas said. “To Matt Montgomery, an 80-year-old man living on his investment earnings. He was devastated when he found out what Pat was doing. To Lorraine Comeau, a single mother. She and her two children are living off the money her uncle left them.

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