By Dana Stabenow
Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for rent within the Park close to Niniltna, Alaska, yet nobody knew anything approximately him. Even Kate Shugak, who was once making plans to invite him to assist construct a small moment cabin on her estate, knew him. yet she, the Park's unofficial P.I., turns out to have recognized much less approximately him than anyone.
When Len Dreyer's physique is chanced on, frozen good, within the direction of a receding glacier with a gap from a shotgun blast in his chest, nobody even spotted that he was once lacking for months. Alaska country Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to assist him dig into Dreyer's heritage, within the wish of discovering a few intent for his homicide. She takes the case, aware of the necessity for gainful employment as she copes together with her accountability for Johnny, the teenage boy in her care and a continuing reminder of his father, her lifeless lover. Little does she think that through attempting to supply for him she simply may placed him correct within the course of danger.
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You pay attention they stuck an Atlantic salmon out of Southeast? ” “No. ” “Fact. ” He nodded as soon as. “Absolute truth. sooner than you recognize it, the escapees from the B. C. fish farms are going to be interbreeding with wild Alaska salmon inventory, after which what’ll occur? ” “I don’t be aware of. ” “I’ll let you know. We lose what industry we do have simply because who the hell desires to consume that dry, diseased fish the farms produce? clean fish, my ass. I’ll let you know what else will occur, too—more men like me, who used to fish for a residing, could be pressured to maneuver into the goddamn urban and discover a goddamn indoor activity the place we need to put on a goddamn tie. ” They brooded jointly for a second over the dying of industrial fishing in Alaska. the tv was once a gradual drone from the lounge. Kate stirred. “Turns out Len Dreyer wasn’t his genuine identify. ” He checked out her. “His actual identify used to be Leon Duffy. ” She sat up directly in her chair and took a deep breath. “Gary, there’s no effortless technique to say this, so I’ll simply come immediately out with it. sooner than he moved to the Park, Leon Duffy was once arrested and jailed for molesting an eleven-year-old woman right here in Anchorage. ” He stared at her with no conversing. She couldn’t learn his expression. “He served 5 and a part years of an eight-year sentence. He acquired day without work for strong habit. He disappeared off everyone’s radar display after he used to be published. ” She paused. “His subsequent recognized whereabouts have been the Park. ” The silence stretched out among them. the tv was once staying on one channel for a transformation, even if the song, for those who may possibly name it that, resembled anything among a pig squealing and fingernails at the blackboard. Kate winced. the hardly discernable backbeat seemed like it wanted a defibrillator. possibly Bobby used to be correct, perhaps there were no rock and roll recorded worthy hearing because the ’70s. Gary stirred and he or she appeared up. “He was once by no means on my own with my girls,” he acknowledged. “That’s what you’re asking me, correct? If he molested my women. ” The dogged method he acknowledged it approximately broke her middle. “Gary—” “He didn’t. He was once by no means by myself with any of them. He labored with me. i used to be constantly with him. You get it? you notice? ” “Yes,” Kate stated lightly, “I see. ” She paused, and closed her eyes momentarily, accumulating the energy jointly to invite the subsequent query. “Gary, whilst used to be the final time you observed Len Dreyer? ” He gave a mirthless chortle and tired his mug. “The final time I observed Len Dreyer was once the day we complete placing the at the kitchen cupboards. ” “Can you consider what day it was once? ” “Nope. someday final could, ahead of we packed up and moved. ” He rose to his ft. “If that’s all, I’ve received activities. ” “Knock it off! ” she heard Johnny exclaim, and walked into the lounge to determine him on his toes, an inch from the door, and if she used to be no longer improper stuck within the act of zipping up his denims. His face was once beet pink and he couldn’t meet her eyes. “Okay,” she stated, “gotta cross. Gary, thank you for the espresso. ” His expression whilst he checked out his daughter, flushed, rumpled, and defiant, was once part in sorrow, part in anger.