Deception Cove by Owen Laukkanen

Author:Owen Laukkanen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2019-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

Shelby Walker leaned down and scratched Lucy’s belly some more.

“From there, it was pretty straightforward,” she told Jess. “Your man had his boat, and I knew how to tell when Kirby had a shipment coming through. We put it together, and presto, voilà.…” She drained her glass again. Set it down hard. “It was supposed to be easy, the way we had it planned.”

“But it wasn’t,” Jess said.

“Oh, it was easy. Kirby got the call, and I texted Ty it was on. We messed with Kirby’s boat so he couldn’t go out, and Ty went in his place. From what Ty said, everything happened perfectly. He got the package, hid it away. All that was left was to convince Kirby to deal, and that’s the part that got fucked up, and I still don’t know why. Ty was dead before he could give me an answer.”

Jess said nothing. She studied Shelby Walker across the table. What about the part where you fucked him? she was thinking. How’d it come about that you were sleeping with my husband; where does that fit into this picture?

“Did your husband ever call you while you were overseas?” Burke asked, filling the silence. “Ever write you any emails, anything he might have let on where he’d stashed the package?”

Jess shook her head. “He just talked about trucks and the new home he was going to build me, all the usual stuff. And…” She stopped. Felt stupid, so stupid, all of a sudden.

“Yeah?”

“Fishing,” she said, and reached for the whiskey. “He sent me a letter that arrived after he died. Fishing was all it was.” She looked at Burke. “He said he’d had a real damn good day of fishing.”

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