What Lies Beneath: A Florida Action Adventure Novel (Scott Jarvis Private Investigator Book 10) by Scott Cook

Author:Scott Cook [Cook, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spindrift Press
Published: 2021-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

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Pulled from the remembrances of La Chica Fantastica

Lisa’s Journal Entry 8

After Scott went off to his meeting, Sharon suggested that we go and look into her uncle’s situation. We took her car and drove over to Everglades City to give Rick’s office another going over.

Yeah, I know Scott already did that but like he said, it was like two in the morning and he was tired. Also, I figured that maybe Sharon would recognize some sort of a clue that neither Scott nor I would. After all, she’d known this guy all her life and probably knew some of his secrets, too.

“So how did this guy become your unofficial uncle, anyway?” I asked as we headed over the Sanibel Causeway.

Sharon’s jaw tightened, and she closed her eyes for a moment. I get wanting to center yourself but like… we were on a bridge…

“He and my dad grew up together,” She finally replied probably a second or two before our fiery or watery death would have occurred. “They’re both from the area. Naples, to be exact. I guess Rick’s father was in World War Two and married Lucinda Granger just before it started. Maybe because of the war or whatever, they didn’t have a kid until 1950. Uncle Rick. I guess things went south after that… William was a fisherman. A shrimper out of the Naples area. Lucinda was something of a fancy pants, I heard. She was drawn to Bill’s rugged Indian looks and lifestyle… but I guess the bloom wore off the rose fairly quickly after the war and with the added stress of a baby.”

“Yeah, they divorced in fifty-three,” I said. “From what I found in the Orange County public records. Weird that stuff would be filed there and not in Lee or Collier County, though.”

“She left him and moved up to O-town,” Sharon explained. “She had family there, yadda, yadda. Anyway, she left Rick with his dad. Just up and abandoned him. The story is pretty sketchy. Rick didn’t talk about it much and he really didn’t know much. Bill had family in the area. Other native folks from the Glades and so on. I think his sister and her husband mostly cared for the kid while his dad was out shrimping. Anyway, the father died when Rick was only five.”

“Jesus Christ…” I muttered. “And his mom never came back for him?”

Sharon scoffed, “I guess not.”

“How’d the father die?”

“Boating accident… his shrimp boat went down one night. As I understand it, it was sudden. They never found the vessel, either. All that was ever reported was a broken-up radio message from another shrimper.”

“Damn…”

Sharon shrugged, “Well, anyway, Rick grew up fast. He and dad met in elementary school and hit it off right away. Typical south Florida kids. Especially considering one of them was a Calusa. Hunting and fishing and camping in the Glades. They got a little wild as they got a bit older and entered high school, though. They started their own fishing business. Inshore and offshore guiding.

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