Night Work (Kate Martinelli Mysteries, Book 4) by Laurie R. King

By Laurie R. King

Kate and her companion, Al Hawkin, are referred to as to a scene of conscientiously performed homicide: the sufferer is a muscular guy, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and sweet in his pocket. The likeliest individual to wish him useless, his often-abused spouse, is meek and frail--and has an hermetic alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until eventually a moment physique turns up--also zapped, cuffed, and strangled...and sporting a sweet bar. This sufferer: a convicted rapist. As newspaper headlines speculate approximately vendetta killings, a 3rd dying attracts Kate and Al right into a community of pitiless destruction that reaches a ways past San Francisco, a modern-style hit record with shudderingly primal roots.

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By Laurie R. King

Kate and her companion, Al Hawkin, are referred to as to a scene of conscientiously performed homicide: the sufferer is a muscular guy, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and sweet in his pocket. The likeliest individual to wish him useless, his often-abused spouse, is meek and frail--and has an hermetic alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until eventually a moment physique turns up--also zapped, cuffed, and strangled...and sporting a sweet bar. This sufferer: a convicted rapist. As newspaper headlines speculate approximately vendetta killings, a 3rd dying attracts Kate and Al right into a community of pitiless destruction that reaches a ways past San Francisco, a modern-style hit record with shudderingly primal roots.

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Horton interpreted that as the secretary. ‘You’d think the sun shone out of his backside,’ Dennings continued. ’ Horton ignored Dennings’ crudity. ’This was getting to be like extracting evidence from a reluctant witness. ‘Business, property, divorce, wills, you name it, Mr bloody Sherbourne can do it. He’s been Brundall’s lawyer for as long as the secretary can remember. At least for the thirteen years she’s been there. She clammed up then tight as a nun’s knees – wouldn’t say any more except that Brundall was a very wealthy man.

And Jesus did it still hurt! And there was him thinking he was moving on! So who was looking after Emma, he wondered, making his way towards the bar? His in-laws? He felt a stab of envy swiftly followed by anger that others were allowed to take care of his daughter and not her father. Uckfield looked up and caught Horton’s eye. He started with surprise, then frowned and hauled himself off the bar stool. Horton watched as Shawford followed Uckfield’s gaze. He caught the look of fear in the man’s eyes and drew immense satisfaction from it.

But, no, that was ridiculous. Why? Horton had never known his father and his mother had never spoken of him. He wasn’t named on his birth certificate. He’d learnt to despise the absent father for abandoning him. And he’d hardened his heart against his mother for deserting him. He didn’t want to revise those opinions. It 50 Pauline Rowson involved too much emotion. Think of practical matters, he urged himself. ’ ‘A massive stroke. ’ The church had moved quickly then to put in a replacement vicar and get her into the vicarage.

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