In March 2000, twenty-year-old Brandon Colbeck left home to find himself on a self-proclaimed “fool’s journey.” No one—not friends or family—have seen or heard from him since, until a phone call from a man claiming to be Brandon brings the case back to the forefront. Calamity (Callie) Barnstable and her team at Past & Present Investigations have been hired to find out what happened to Brandon and where he might be. As Callie follows a trail of buried secrets and decades-old deceptions only one thing is certain: whatever the outcome, there is no such thing as closure.
Genre: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private InvestigatorsThis is book 3 in my bestselling Marketville Mystery series. It was longlisted for the Killer Nashville Readers' Choice Award in 2020. 4.5 av. rating on Amazon. 4.49 on Goodreads.
I stared at Leith Hampton, déjà vu enveloping me. It had been fifteen months since the first time I’d sat in the law office of Hampton & Associates. An unexpected connection had brought me back to learn of another inheritance. And once again, there were strings attached. What can I say? In my life, nothing is ever as simple as it seems on the surface.
This time, I’d inherited $365,000 from my great-grandmother, Olivia Marie Rosemount Osgoode. I’d met her for the first time a few weeks earlier while attempting to sift through the life and times of Anneliese Prei.
I liked Olivia, though I’m not sure I knew her long enough or well enough to claim the emotion I felt for her was love. It was hard to forgive someone who, along with her son, Corbin, and his wife, Yvette—I prefer not to think of them as my grandparents—had disowned my seventeen-year-old mother when she became pregnant with me. My father went to his grave despising anyone who bore the Osgoode name, and a lot of his bitterness had been passed on to me. I wondered what he’d think, now that I was the primary beneficiary of her last will and testament. I suspect his personal code of ethics might have led him to refuse the money. I’m not quite as principled.
“You said there was a condition,” I said.
“Olivia was fascinated by Past & Present Investigations. Fascinated and proud. She began to worry that a significant sum of money might decrease your need, and ultimately your desire, to find another case. Of course, you’re free to decline, in which case your inheritance will revert to Corbin Osgoode.”
I thought about my grandfather’s fury at the reading of the will and suppressed a smile. “Tell me about the case.”
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