CONFESSION
by By Pickard, Nancy
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , General

Jenny would always remember every detail of that hot Massachusetts summer day when fate knocked at the door, shattering her peace and changing her marriage to Geof Bushfield forever. Fate was a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes, a motorcycle, and a shocking but credible story: Geof was his biological father. The boy, David Mayer, wasn't looking for any emotional reunion, but he did have an agenda. His parents - and he was quick to make that point, that Geof was nothing to him - had died earlier in the year, a murder/suicide according to the Port Frederick police. The cops were wrong, David said, and Geof was a cop, and he owed it to David to prove that Ron Mayer had not killed his invalid wife, Judy, and then himself.David was too full of anger and resentment to be openly cooperative, but he was not above luring Geof and Jenny from the back of his motorcycle to carefully placed clues...including two bizarre videotaped confessions of "sin," one by Judy Mayer, the other by Judy's previous, abusive husband.Ron Mayer's parents and brothers, still distraught with grief, saw no reason to dispute the police department's murder/suicide ruling. A tight-lipped clan, they all lived on the same street in Port Frederick's oldest, most stately neighborhood - light-years from the neat subdivision Ron and Judy had called home - and all but Ron's mother seemed united in the conviction that Ron had, tragically, consigned himself to hell.Then another murder was committed - a horrible, violent, cruel murder. Although the police had cleared David Mayer in the case of his parents' deaths, even Geof had to admit that the Port Frederick Police Department sometimes made mistakes. Now dead animals were turning up on Jenny's doorstep, strange graffiti was emblazoned on the high school's blackboards, and the foreboding Jenny felt when she first met David was turning into downright terror....