The Ophelia Cut: A Novel by John Lescroart

Author:John Lescroart [Lescroart, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
ISBN: 1476709157
Amazon: B008J2BPS2
Goodreads: 15803163
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2013-05-07T05:00:00+00:00

23

MASSAGING THE SKIN over his heart, Abe Glitsky stared down through the plantation shutters that covered his living room’s picture window. Though it was not yet nine o’clock, darkness had come on rapidly with the approaching storm, and already the west-facing window thrummed with the lashing rain. In the back of the flat, he was vaguely aware of Treya’s bedtime rituals with the kids, who had stayed up later than usual because the family was preparing for tomorrow’s seder, a good reason to amend the nighttime schedule if ever there was one.

Five minutes ago, Abe had been in with them all, the furthest cry from a hard-ass lieutenant of Homicide as could be imagined. With his second family, Glitsky was in many ways a different human being than he’d been on the first go-round, with his cancer-stricken wife and his three boys, now all grown up. When he married Treya, she’d brought a lovely teenage daughter, Raney, with her. In short order, they’d had Rachel and Zachary. For some reason—Glitsky attributed it to the two girls when he thought about it at all—he had discovered a spark of, if not true goofiness, than at least levity, that he loved sharing with his children.

He made faces, told jokes, worked the occasional pun, waxed sarcastic. He found that he loved slapstick—tonight at dinner they’d had one of those everybody-spills-milk moments. Zach’s went first, and when Treya reached to catch it, she knocked over her own glass, pretty much into the lap of Rachel, who jumped up and—yes—knocked over her own glass. Glitsky, facing an imminent meltdown, remained calm, looked around the table at the stricken faces, and said, “Let’s not have a meltdown. Let’s have a milkdown.” He picked up his glass and slowly poured it on the table. Crisis averted, and probably a story for the kids for the rest of their lives, one that their older half brothers would never believe. Rachel and Zach were already reliving the moment, laughing, loving the idea of a milkdown as Glitsky was helping to tuck them in.

Then the landline rang on the kitchen wall, and since he remained the kind of guy who always answered the phone, he excused himself with a final quick tickle of his son and went in and picked up.

Whereupon he got the news from his best friend that his two inspectors had arrested Moses McGuire, and what did he know about that?

As he watched the rain, it was as though he felt the darkness trying to get inside his house and to invade his soul. In a bad mood, Dismas Hardy nevertheless had been his usual confident self, assuring Abe that Moses posed no real risk. At least in terms of what they’d all been through in the past.

Glitsky knew Hardy as well as he knew anybody, and understood that he was capable of self-deception sometimes. He did not want to see the bad in people, whereas Glitsky, outside of his home, tended to see it more than anything else.

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