The Skeleton Box - Book 3 Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

Author:Bryan Gruley [Gruley, Bryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9781416563662
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Amazon: 1416563660
Barnesnoble: 1416563660
Goodreads: 12995290
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2012-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

I turned my cell phone on after crossing the bridge at Zilwaukee, a bit more than a hundred miles north of Detroit. There were two new messages.

Attorney Peter Shipman said he’d been retained by my mother. Darlene, he said, had called him, God bless her. “Bea’s fine,” he said. “The cops aren’t saying much, and I told her to stay mum for now. No charges yet, but they’re holding her for questioning. Between us, I think they think it’s for her own safety. She has her own cell and they’re treating her with kid gloves. She sends her love.”

The young woman on the other message said simply, “Call me when you hit twenty-three.”

I dialed Joanie McCarthy when I exited onto U.S. 23 south toward Detroit.

“Thirsty?” she answered.

“Where are you?”

“The newsroom. The desk called me in to chase some stupid Freep story we wrote a week ago. Then they decided there was no space for it.”

My old newsroom: the wooden desks like steamer trunks, the wires snaking up the ancient pillars, the rattle of keyboards ringing off the tile floors, the smells of bad coffee and old leather and newsprint.

“Sorry,” I said. “Just pop it on the Internet.”

“Might as well put it in a bottle and throw it off the banks of the Detroit River. You still shoot pool?”

“Not for a while, but it’s kind of late, isn’t it?”

“Not upstairs at Aggie’s. You know it?”

I looked at my watch. After midnight. I had thought I would get a motel and meet Joanie in the morning. But she had stayed up, so I guess I had to stay up.

“Greektown, right? Monroe?”

“Off Beaubien. An hour?”

“Sure. You got some stuff on Breck?”

I heard what I thought was her taking her feet off of a desk, plopping them on the floor. “Altar boy,” she said.

“How so?”

“See you at Aggie’s. Bring your A game.”

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