The Girl In The Glass
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What he really needed was either a new murder or a new girlfriend or maybe both. So far, at least, the murder wasn’t happening. As for the girlfriend, he’d spent a fair amount of time checking out the Match.com and OkCupid websites. He’d gone out for drinks with three different women whose profiles he’d liked. They were all nice. All attractive. But none of them excited him enough to follow through. Apparently he hadn’t excited them either.
Finally there was Maggie. They had both avoided the subject of a possible relationship since that day in June when he’d gotten so staggeringly drunk at Tallulah’s. While he was now certain Kyra was gone for good, there was still the undeniable fact that Maggie worked for him and the equally undeniable fact that the department frowned on relationships between cops who worked together. McCabe ran under the highway overpass and started counterclockwise around Back Cove. For the next mile or so he argued with himself.
As he passed the Chevrus High School football field, he decided the hell with the arguments and leaned against a tree. Feeling as nervous as an adolescent, he took out his phone and punched in her number.
“Hi, McCabe. What’s going on?”
He didn’t answer for a minute.
“McCabe, are you there?”
“Would you like to have dinner with me tonight?”
“You mean like a date?”
“Yup. Exactly like a date.”
“I’m afraid the answer is no.”
“Oh.”
“For one thing, I’ve already got a date tonight.”
“Who with?”
“Not that it’s any of your business, but it just happens to be with a guy named Kraft.”
“As in Charles Kraft?”
“As in.”
“You like him?”
“That really is none of your business.”
“What about tomorrow?”
There was a pause. “Let me think about it.” After a minute Maggie finally said, “We can have dinner tomorrow. But let’s not call it a date. How about a working supper?”
McCabe sighed. “Okay. A working supper. Seven o’clock?”
“Seven o’clock is fine.”
The whole way back to his house McCabe couldn’t get the image of Maggie and Whitby E&D’s head of corporate security out of his mind. He figured he’d find out whether or not there was anything to be jealous about when they got together on Sunday. And if there was, if Maggie was “taken,” he supposed he’d just have to figure out how to deal with it.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank all those people who were helpful to me in the writing of this book. Former Detective Sergeant Tom Joyce, who once held McCabe’s job on the Portland PD and who has always done his best to make sure my cops investigate crime the way cops should investigate crime. Where I stray from reality, it is my own doing and not Tom’s. Former Portland detective and unofficial historian of the Portland PD, Steve Roberts, for his help in presenting an accurate picture of the way things were in 1904. Forensic pathologist Dr. Erin Presnell of the Medical College of South Carolina for graciously answering all my pestering questions about death and DNA. Dr. Bud Higgins and Dr. Robert Zeff, who both, once again, helped with medical details. Naturally, I want to thank my super agents Meg Ruley and Rebecca Scherer of the Jane Rotrosen Agency for their insights and help in getting this book right. And, of course, to my editor, Emily Krump, and my publisher, Dan Mallory, from HarperCollins Witness Impulse for their constant patience and support for this project. Finally, to my wife, Jeanne O’Toole Hayman, for putting up with my grumpiness when things weren’t going right and with my lengthy solitary journeys into the imaginary world that all writers of fiction must inhabit.
I should also reiterate that The Girl in the Glass is most definitely a work of fiction. While my descriptions of the city of Portland are generally accurate, the Whitby family, Whitby Island, and the activities of Whitby Engineering & Development are totally figments of my imagination.
About the Author
JAMES HAYMAN, formerly creative director at one of New York’s largest advertising agencies, is the author of the acclaimed McCabe and Savage series: The Cutting, The Chill of Night, Darkness First, and The Girl in the Glass.
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