Fatal

Informationen zum Autor John Lescroart is the author of over twenty-seven novels! including the New York Times bestsellers The Ophelia Cut ! The Keeper ! The Fall ! and Fatal . His books have sold more than ten-million copies and have been translated into twenty-two languages. He lives in Northern California. Klappentext From "New York Times"-bestselling author Lescroart comes a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected! shattering! and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. Tall Premium Edition. Fatal 1 KATE JAMESON AND BETH TULLY walked west at the bayside edge of Crissy Field. The lines of the Golden Gate Bridge materialized in haphazard fashion through the fog in front of them, but neither paid much attention. This was a view they encountered nearly every time they walked together, and they usually tried to do that once a week, so none of it really registered—not the choppy gray-green bay sloshing to their right, the bridge looming ahead, the kite-boarders, the sailboats, the joggers passing by—all of it swathed in the ubiquitous, wispy fog. They’d been roommates twenty years before at the University of San Francisco and though their lives had taken different turns, they were still close friends who rarely ran out of things to talk about. The walk, from Ghirardelli Square to the bridge and back, took them about an hour, and usually the first half of that got devoted to discussing their offspring—Kate’s two and Beth’s one, all teenagers. There was never a dearth of material. When they finally arrived at the bridge and turned around, they’d usually chitchatted enough about les enfants. They had several mutual acquaintances, mostly from the old days, and also some recurring personalities from the greater worlds of the kids’ schools or sports teams or their domestic lives, and the normal walk back to where they’d begun was all gossip—laughter, agreement, connection. But today, not even halfway to the bridge, Beth said, “And so finally there was Ginny”—her seventeen-year-old—“sitting inside the refrigerator with a pork chop on her knee.” Getting no response, she kept walking for a few more steps and then stopped mid-stride. “Earth to Kate. Come in, please.” “What? I’m sorry. What were you saying?” “Well, the last minute or so I was just making stuff up, wondering if you’d notice. Which I have to say you didn’t. Are you all right?” “Sure.” She hesitated. “I think so.” “But something . . .” “No. It’s nothing.” “That old elusive nothing.” “Maybe. Should we keep walking?” “Unless you want to head back.” “No. I’m good. I’m sorry. Let’s keep going.” Falling in step together, they covered a couple of hundred yards in silence before Beth reached over and touched the sleeve of Kate’s workout jacket. “You can tell me, you know,” she said. “Whatever it is.” “I know. But that’s what I’m saying, or not saying. It really isn’t anything. At least not yet.” She shook her head, once, emphatically. “It shouldn’t ever be anything.” “That sounds ominous enough.” Beth paused, then said, “Tell me, please, it’s not Ron.” Kate reacted almost as if she’d been stung. “No! No no no. Ron’s great. He’s always great. It’s not him.” “But it’s somebody? Something?” A nod. “It’s something.” They had come up beside a bench that bordered the path, and Kate stopped, hands deep in her pockets. “Maybe we could sit a minute.” “Sure.” They both sat and Beth waited. Kate finally started. “I don’t know what happened, exactly. We went over to Ron’s partner’s house for dinner on Saturday. Do you know Geoff and Bina Cooke? N...

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• Autori: John Lescroart, John T. Lescroart
• Editore: Pocket Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781501174940
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-7494-0
• Dimensioni: 108 mm x 192 mm x 23 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio