The Fallen by David Baldacci

Author:David Baldacci
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

He met Jamison on his way out. She was holding Zoe’s hand as they came up the front walk. In her other hand was a bag of groceries.

“Where are you going?” she asked him.

“Just back out to check on a few things.”

“How’s it going?”

“It’s going.”

“Don’t do anything—” She stopped and glanced at Zoe. “You know.”

“I know.”

As he hurried away, Zoe called after him, “Mr. Amos, you’re going to come back, right?”

Decker stopped and slowly turned. “I’ll be back, Zoe. I promise.”

He drove over to Bradley Costa’s apartment and used the key Lassiter had given him to let himself in.

He walked right over to the photo on the shelf.

A smiling John Baron stared back at him.

The boys all looked happy too. They should have after winning the state championship.

What had been bugging Decker ever since he’d found out about Bradley Costa was one question:

Why would a young and single banker leave New York City and come to this place? Decker had to imagine that especially for a young person with money, the enticements of the Big Apple would trump anything Baronville had to offer.

He stared at the photo and then his gaze slipped to the frame around it.

Why not check the obvious? he thought. In fact, he should have done it before. He picked up the photo, turned it around, and flicked off the little metal tags that held the back of the frame on. He took out the cardboard backing and then the photo itself.

“Damn,” he muttered.

There was a name and an address written there.

“Stanley Nottingham,” he read off.

Underneath the name was an address in New York City.

Decker slipped the photo into his jacket.

Who was Stanley Nottingham in New York City, and why would Costa have this information written down on the back of the Little League photo?

He thumbed a text to Todd Milligan asking the FBI agent to look into this for him as well. If Decker had to travel to New York to talk to Nottingham, he would. The man might be able to explain why Bradley Costa had come to Baronville. And that information might lead to something else.

And then the case might finally start to make sense.

Criminal investigations usually involved minutiae piled on top of minutiae, until something clicked with something else, or, sometimes, contradicted something else. Either way, it could lead you in the right direction.

And Decker desperately needed something to go right.

He left the apartment, got back into his truck, and set off for his next stop.

Betsy O’Connor, Toby Babbot’s last known roommate.

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