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David Rosenfelt - Bury the Lead

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Northern New Jersey has a new local hero on its cultural crime turf. Hes Andy Carpenter, the Paterson defense attorney who can sling a quip as fast as he can outmaneuver a snarling prosecutor. Acclaimed author David Rosenfelts first novel, was nominated for an Edgar Award, now in this new novel, the intrepid lawyer is thrust into the spotlight where he risks becoming a media victim...of the most fatal kind. His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named the Tara Foundation after his own beloved golden retriever. Yet after turning down cases left and right, Andy Carpenter thinks hes facing a midlife crisis. When a friend, a newspaper owner, calls in a favor and asks him to protect his star reporter, Andy is less than thrilled. His new client is Daniel Cummings, a journalist who is being used as a mouthpiece by a brutal serial killer. Things only get worse when Daniel is discovered near the body of the murderers latest victim. And after Andy himself starts collecting anonymous death threats, he hears the news every defense lawyer dreads...and moves to within a dangerous keystroke of becoming tomorrows obituary.

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright 2004 by David Rosenfelt
All rights reserved.

Warner Books

Hachette Book Group USA

237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Visit our Web site at HachetteBookGroupUSA.com.

First eBook Edition: September 2007

ISBN: 978-0-446-50971-8

Also by David Rosenfelt

Open and Shut
First Degree

To Sara Ann Freed.

I am not a good enough writer to create a character with the grace, dignity, generosity, spirit, and courage that came so naturally to Sara Ann.

Once again I must face the unplesant task of admitting that I had help with this book. So, in no particular order, I would like to thank:

Robin Rue and Sandy Weinberg, agents extraordinaire.

Jamie Raab, Les Pockell, Kristen Weber, Susan Richman, Martha Otis, Bob Castillo, and everyone else at Warner. They have been consistently supportive and a pleasure to deal with.

George Kentris, for helping with everything legal; Kristen Paxos Mecionis, for helping with everything involving law enforcement; and Susan Brace, for helping with everything psychological. In a never-ending quest for accuracy and realism, I follow everything they say, unless it interferes with the story.

Those who read early drafts and contributed their thoughts, including Ross, Heidi, Rick, Lynn, Mike and Sandi Rosenfelt, Amanda Baron, Emily Kim, Al and Nancy Sarnoff, Stacy Alesi, and Norman Trell. Special thanks to Scott Ryder for sharing his considerable expertise in everything from computers to skydiving.

And to Debbie Myersparaphrasing Russell Crowe to Jennifer Connelly at the end of A Beautiful MindYou are the reason I am here today. You are all my reasons.

I continue to be grateful to the many people who have e-mailed me feedback on Open and Shut and First Degree. Please do so again at dr27712@aol.com . Thank you.

AS SOON AS I WALK IN , the woman gives me the eye.

This is not quite as promising a situation as it sounds. First of all, Im in a Laundromat. The actual name is the Law-dromat, owned by my associate Kevin Randall. Kevin uses this business to emotionally, as well as literally, cleanse himself of the rather grimy things were exposed to in our criminal law practice. In the process he dispenses free legal advice to customers along with detergent and bleach.

Also, the woman giving me this particular eye is not exactly a supermodel. Shes maybe four feet eleven inches tall, rather round, and wearing a coat so bulky she could be hiding a four-gallon jug of Tide under it. Her hair is stringy and most likely not squeaky clean to the touch.

Truth be told, even if we were in a nightclub and the woman looked more like Halle than Boysen Berry, I doubt I could accurately gauge the situation. Im no better than average-looking myself and thus have almost no experience with women giving me the eye. In fact, though Im not in the habit of counting offered body parts, its safe to say that over the years Ive gotten the finger more than the eye. And Ive probably gotten the boot more than both of them combined.

To totally close off any romantic possibilities in this encounter, I remain in love with, and totally faithful to, one Laurie Collins. So no matter how this round stranger tries to tempt me, Im not about to engage in an early evening bout of tawdry Laundromat sex.

I notice that the womans eyes start alternating between me and the door, though no one else is entering. And as I move in her general direction, she starts to inch toward that door. This woman is afraid of me.

Hi, I say, figuring a clever opening like that will put her at ease. Instead, she just nods slightly and seems to draw inward, as if she wants to become invisible. Kevin around? I ask.

The woman mutters, No... I dont know... , then gathers her clothes, which she hadnt yet put into the machine, and quickly leaves. In the process she bangs into Kevins cousin Billy, who is just coming in. Billy runs the place when Kevin is not around.

Hey, Andy. Whats with her? Billy asks.

Im not sure. I think she was afraid she might succumb to my charms.

He nods. Weve been getting a lot of that lately.

What do you mean?

Billy just points toward a shelf high up in the corner of the room, and for the first time I realize that there is a television up there. Its turned to local news, though the sound is off. There was a day when that would have been a problem, but now all the stations have that annoying crawl along the bottom of the screen.

The subject of the newscast is the murder of a woman last night in Passaic, the third such murder in the last three weeks. The killer has chosen to communicate and taunt the police through Daniel Cummings, a reporter for a local newspaper, and in the process has created a media furor. The woman who just left is not alone in her fear; the entire community seems gripped by it.

They making any progress? I ask, referring to the police.

Billy shrugs. Theyre appealing to the guy to give himself up.

I nod. That should do the trick. Wheres Kevin?

Doctor.

Is he sick? I ask, though I know better. Kevin has as many admirable qualities as anyone I know, but he happens to be a total hypochondriac.

Billy laughs. Yeah. He thinks his tongue is swollen and turning black. Kept sticking it out for me to look at.

Was it swollen?

He shakes his head. Nope.

Black?

Nope.

Did you tell him that? I ask.

Nope. I told him he should get it checked out, that he might be getting fat black tongue disease. He shrugs and explains, Im a little short this month; I needed the hours.

I nod; the more time Kevin spends at the doctor, the more time Billy gets to work here. I hand an envelope to Billy; it had come to the office for Kevin. Give this to him, okay?

You making deliveries now? he asks.

Im on my way to the foundation.

Billy nods. Listen, do me a favor? When you see Kevin, tell him his tongue looks like a bowling ball.

No problem.

NEW JERSEY EXISTS in a sort of twilight zone. That is, if it exists at all. It is a densely populated, diverse collection of cities and towns, yet it has no identity. Half of it is a suburb of New York City, and the other half a suburb of Philadelphia. The Giants and Jets play football in Jersey, yet they deny its existence, referring to themselves as New York.

The most embarrassing part is that all the major TV stations that cover New Jersey are based in New York. Ottumwa, Iowa, has its own network affiliates, but Jersey doesnt. It should thus come as no surprise that those same stations treat Jerseyites as second-class citizens.

Stories about New Jersey are barely covered, unless they are simply too juicy to overlook. The recent murders have successfully crossed that high-juice threshold, and the networks are all over them. Even more pumped up are the national cable networks, and Ive been invited to serve as an uninformed panelist on eleven of the shows that specialize in uninformed panels. Ive accepted three of those invitations, and in the process I fit right in by bringing absolutely nothing of value to the public discourse.

My appeal to these shows is based on the fact that Ive successfully handled a couple of high-profile murder cases in the last couple of years. I mustve gotten on some list that is shared among TV news producers. Lets see... , I can hear them say as they check that list when a New Jersey crime story comes up. Here it is... Andy Carpenter. Lets get him. Thatll fill twenty minutes.

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