Play Dead
Harlan Coben
Language: English
Pages: 560
ISBN: 0451231740
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura's search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years...
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COLLEGE The car turned right and entered the campus. The campus was storybook small college. Buildings that would be covered with ivy if it were not for the snow dotted the barren campus. The place reeked of liberal arts. Students here engaged in intellectual discussions on Hobbes and Locke, on Hegel and Marx, on Tennyson and Browning, on Potok and Bellow. During the day, they went to classes, met friends in the cafeteria, picked up mail at the P.O. At night, they studied in the library,
fire. Judy kept all her diaries behind her desk in the study. The blaze destroyed them all.’ ‘Except this one.’ ‘Right.’ Laura held the old volume in her hands. She opened it up and recognized Judy’s handwriting. It had not changed much in thirty years. Some of the letters looped a little higher back then. The pen had a lighter touch against the paper. But there was no mistaking the penmanship. Gloria moved closer. ‘Start reading, Laura.’ James grabbed an apple from the refrigerator. His
familiar car. Her father’s car. James’s hand shook, but it no longer mattered. The target was within range. All he had to do was pull the trigger. It would all be over. Once again, peace would descend over his family. The past would be foiled before it could destroy any more lives. It would rise no more. His thumb pulled back the hammer. That was when he heard the door swing open. The heavy metal door banged hard against the wall, the sound echoing all the way down the hall and into the
puzzlement turned into a smile. ‘Oh, I get it. You know about his past. You’re worried about it.’ ‘Well maybe a little…’ ‘He told me all about it,’ Gloria continued. ‘I know all about his gambling problem. He’s going to get help.’ Bullshit, Laura thought yet again. Dr Harris had told her not to push too hard so there was no way she could tell Gloria about all the wonderful things that warm, caring Stan had done to his family. She bit down on her tongue for a moment. ‘Still, Gloria, you should
gone according to plan – until she met David Baskin. The taxi slowed to a stop. ‘We’re here, luv.’ The Pacific International Hotel in Cairns was not far from the Peterson office. It was near the center of town and across the street from the Marlin Jetty where most of the sightseeing and diving boats set sail. The hotel was a popular vacation spot, ideal for those who wanted the tropics of Australia but did not crave absolute seclusion. But the occupant of room 607 was not here to vacation.