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  Chapter 5

  Friday morning at 9 a.m., give or take a few minutes, homicide lieutenant and acting police chief Jackson Brady strode down the center aisle of the bullpen.

  The night shift was punching out, day shift straggling in, calling out, “Hey, boss,” “Yo, Brady.” He nodded to Chi, Lemke, Samuels, Wang, kept going.

  At the front of the room there were two desks pushed together face-to-face. Boxer and Conklin’s real estate. Brady had partnered with both of them when he first came to the SFPD as a switch-hitter. Stood with them with bullets flying more than once. He counted on them. Would do anything for them.

  Brady slid into Boxer’s desk chair. He looked at Conklin over Lindsay’s small junkyard of personal space, swung the head of the gooseneck lamp aside, moved a stack of files and a mug to make space for his elbows.

  Conklin looked up, said, “You okay, Lieu?”

  Brady knew that he looked like shit. Too many hours here. Too much junk food. Too little sleep. Worried eighteen hours a day. His collar was tight. He loosened his tie. Undid the top shirt button.

  “So the way I understand it,” Brady said, “Boxer had a doctor’s appointment yesterday afternoon. A checkup. She calls to say, ‘I’m fine, boss. Doctor said I need to start taking me time.’”

  Conklin said, “She told me the same.”

  Brady thought about when Boxer had been very sick. Took off a couple of months and came back. Said she felt perfect. So now what was she saying?

  “You think she’s all right?” said Brady.

  Conklin said, “She’s fine. Doctor told her she shouldn’t run herself into the ground like she does. So her sister has the wild child, and Lindsay and Joe took off to parts unknown for the weekend, maybe another day or two. You know, Brady. Most people take weekends off.”

  “Oh, really? I don’t know many.”

  Brady gathered up loose pens and pencils and put them into a ceramic mug.

  Conklin said, “What worries me is how you look.”

  “Don’t rub it in.”

  Brady had been working two jobs since Chief Warren Jacobi had been retired out. Filling Jacobi’s old chair on the fifth floor as well as running the Homicide squad room felt like having his head slammed in a car door.

  The mayor was pressuring him; choose one job or the other, but decide.

  Brady had talked it over with Yuki, who’d offered measured wifely advice, not pushing or pulling, just laying it out as a lawyer would.

  “I can make a case for taking on more responsibility while working fewer hours per day. I can also give you reasons why Homicide is where your strengths lie. And you love it. But you have to make a decision PDQ, or the mayor is going to make it for you.”

  Conklin was saying, “I can work with Chi and McNeil until Boxer is back.”

  “Yeah. Do that.”

  Brady left Conklin and the bullpen, took the fire stairs one flight up to five. When he got to his office, his assistant, Katie, said, “Lieu, I was just about to look for you. Check this out.”

  He took a seat behind the desk. Katie leaned over his shoulder and brought up the Chronicle online, paused on the front page, and read the headline, “‘Roger Jennings Shot at Taco King,’” then added the takeaway, “He’s in critical condition.”

  Jennings was a baseball player, a catcher nearing the end of his professional career.

  Why would anyone want to kill him?

  Chapter 6

  I’d called Joe as soon as I left my doctor’s office and told him what Doc Arpino had said: “Lindsay. Live a little. Get out of town for a few days. Go to a spa.”

  My dear husband had said, “Leave this to me.”

  I’d left word with Brady and Conklin: “I’m off duty.”

  Words to that effect.

  Now, with our phones locked inside the trunk, Joe and I were heading north, breezing across the Golden Gate Bridge, sailboats flying below us across the sparkling bay.

  Joe was at the wheel and I was sitting beside him, saying, “I did not.”

  “You did, too. You came to the airport. You said, ‘I want you. And I want the jet.’”

  I laughed out loud. “You’re crazy.”

  “You remember the company plane?”

  “Oh. Yes.”

  “Louder, dear.”

  “Oh, YES.”

  We both laughed.

  Joe and I had met on the job, heads of a cop and DHS joint task force charged with shutting down a terrorist who was armed with a deadly poison and a plan to take down members of the G8 meeting in San Francisco. He killed a lot of people, including one very close to me, before we nailed the bastard and took him down.

  I blocked thoughts about all of that and said, “You remember when we broke away from the G8 case for the investigation in Portland?”

  “Do I ever,” said Joe. “Inside that conference room with a dozen people working a national-security murder and you saying, ‘If you keep looking at me like that, Deputy Director Molinari, I can’t work.’”

  I laughed and said, “I told you that afterward. I didn’t say that out loud.”

  I was sure I was right, but it was also true that working with Joe under so much adrenalized fear and pressure had unleashed some pretty amazing magic between us. And before we’d left Portland for San Francisco, we’d fallen in love. Hard.

  Was it perfect from then on?

  Hell no. We lived on opposite sides of the country, and so we rode the long-distance relationship roller coaster for a while, cured loneliness and longing with adventures for a few days a month until Joe gave up his job and moved to the City by the Bay.

  About a year after our wedding, I gave birth to Julie Anne Molinari while home alone on a dark and stormy night with electric lines down across the city. While I panted and pushed and screamed, surrounded by firemen, Joe was thirty-five thousand feet overhead, unaware.

  He’d made it up to me and our baby girl when he finally reached home. Joe Molinari, intelligence agency consultant and Mr. Mom.

  He asked now, “Where are you, Lindsay?”

  “I’m right here.”

  I leaned over, gave him a kiss, and said, “I was remembering. Where are you, Joe?”

  He put his hand on my thigh.

  “I’m here, Blondie, thinking about what a good mom you are, and how much I love you.”

  I told him, “I sure do love you, too.”

  This weekend Julie was staying at the beach with her aunt Cat, two cousins, and Martha, our best doggy in the world, while Joe and I got to be two fortysomething kids in love.

  Joe turned on the radio and found the perfect station.

  We were cruising. The weather was sunny with a side of sailboats, and we were singing along with the oldies: “Free to do what I want any old time.”

  When we reached our first destination, Joe and I were in a honeymoon state of mind.

  Chapter 7

  Joe slowed the car and parked us in front of a modest-looking two-story building made of river stones and timbers, surrounded by greenery.

  I recognized it from photos of where to go in Napa Valley. This was reportedly one of the best restaurants in the world, as it had been for the last twenty years.

  Yes, best in the world.

  I shouted, “The French Laundry? Seriously?”

  I’d read about how hard it was to get into this place, revered by foodies all over and winner of Michelin’s top ranking, three stars. A two-month waiting period for a lunch reservation was typical.

  “You didn’t pull this off overnight.”

  “I have a connection,” Joe said, giving me a twinkly grin.

  Wow. After the burger-and-coffee diet that went with being on the Job, I wondered if I could even appreciate fine dining. But now I knew why Joe had said to wear a dress—and surprise, surprise, I had one on. It was a navy-blue-and-white print, and I’d matched it with a blue cashmere cardigan. I pulled the band from my sandy-blond ponytail, flipped down the visor, and looked at myself
in the mirror.

  I fluffed up my hair a little and pinched my cheeks.

  I looked nice.

  The restaurant’s farm garden was across the street, and it was open to visitors, a lovely place for a Friday stroll. I told Joe I was going to need my phone after all so I could take pictures. He got out of the car, and the trunk lid went up.

  That’s when a panel van pulled up to the rear of the car and buzzed down its passenger-side window. I couldn’t see the driver, but I heard him yell, “Joeeey.”

  Joe called back, “Dave, you crazy SOB.”

  I watched him go over to the van, open the door, lean in, and hug the driver. Then he came back to me and said, “You’re finally going to meet Dave.”

  When Joe spoke of David Channing, it was always with love and sadness. Dave had been Joe’s college roommate at Fordham back east in the Bronx. I’d seen pictures of them on the field. Dave was a quarterback and Joe played flanker. He’d shown me pictures of the team, whooping, high on victory, both Joe and Dave tall, brawny, handsome, and so young.

  Joe had told me that after a day like that, a win against Holy Cross, there’d been a sudden cold snap and a snowstorm had blown in from the west. Dave had been driving his girlfriend, Rebecca, home to Croton-on-Hudson, about forty-five minutes up the Taconic, a lovely twisting road with a parklike median strip and beautiful views.

  But, as Joe had told me, on that late afternoon the snow had melted into a coating of black ice on the road. Dave had taken a turn where a rocky outcropping blocked his view of a vehicle that had spun out of control and stopped across both lanes. Dave had braked, skidding into the disabled car, while another, fast-moving car had rear-ended him.

  Before it was over, thirty-two cars had crashed in a horrific pileup. Rebecca had been killed. Dave’s spine had been crushed, and the young man who was being scouted by NFL teams had been paralyzed from the waist down.

  His parents, Ray and Nancy, had brought Dave home to their little winery just outside Napa, and there’d been years of painful rehab. During those years, Joe had said, Dave had walled himself off from his friends and pretty much the whole world. Lately, he kept the company books, ran a support group for paraplegics, and mourned his mother’s death from lymphoma. That was all Joe knew.

  Joe opened my door, offered me his hand, and helped me out, saying, “I’ve been waiting a long time for this, Linds. Come and meet Dave.”

  Chapter 8

  David Channing did some show-off wheelies, pushed his chair wheels to fade back, and told Joe to go long.

  He tossed an imaginary football, and Joe made a big show of snatching it out of the air, running across an invisible goal line, and spiking the ball in the end zone.

  Dave laughed as Joe did a victory dance. Then he grinned shyly and held out his hand to shake mine, and I turned it into a hug.

  “It’s trite but true,” he said. “Joe has told me so much about you.”

  “Back at you, Dave. He can really riff on you, too.”

  Joe squeezed his friend’s shoulder, said, “Shall we?”

  Dave said, “I’d love to join you, Joe, but I’m just here to finally meet Lindsay, and now I’ve got to get back.”

  Joe said, “Hell no, you don’t. I haven’t seen you in three years. We’re having lunch together. All of us. It’s on me.”

  Dave protested. He said that this was our weekend, lunch was all set for us, he didn’t want to be a third wheel—but he didn’t have a chance versus Joe.

  I heard him mutter “You’re still tough, old man” as Joe, steering us toward the restaurant and holding open the shiny blue-painted door, ushered us inside. We were greeted by the maître d’, who called Dave “Davy,” and we were shown to a table, seated so that I was between Dave and Joe, Dave saying, “These folks are customers of ours.”

  Joe said, “I think we’ll be having the Channing Winery Cab.”

  Sounded good to me.

  Claire Washburn, my BFF, had been here for her anniversary last year and had given me the CliffsNotes, saying, “A meal at the French Laundry changes your life.”

  I didn’t doubt my friend. In fact, I couldn’t remember a time when she’d been wrong about anything. But I wasn’t sure that a single meal could change my life, even for a day. Joe’s lasagna was a high bar and possibly my favorite dish—in the world.

  I looked around and immediately warmed to the restaurant; the main room was comfortable and homey, with sand-colored walls, a dozen round tables, a coved ceiling, and sconces between the casement windows.

  Our menus arrived and Dave said, “I recommend the tasting menu. Today’s version will never be served exactly the same way again.”

  Lisette, our server, concurred. A quick look at the menu laid out a journey of nine little courses of classic French cuisine with a three-star spin. And along the way there would be wine to taste.

  I’m no math whiz, but it was easy to see that lunch for three was going to come in at over a thousand dollars.

  Possibly well over a thousand.

  Joe put his arm around the back of my chair and pulled me closer to him.

  Dave apologized for not making it to our wedding, and I told him that we’d felt him there nonetheless.

  “Love the wedding present, Dave.”

  He laughed, said, “Not everyone loves an antique gun safe.”

  Joe and I said it together.

  “We do!”

  Chapter 9

  Before the first dish arrived, the two old friends started catching up on who’d married, who’d gone into politics, who had passed away.

  The salmon tartare was served in a little cone. Adorable. My taste buds maxed out but rallied in time to taste what Lisette said was one of the French Laundry’s signature dishes: two oysters on the half shell with pearl tapioca and Regiis Ova caviar, served in a small white bowl. I dipped a fork into the oyster shell and brought the creamy, buttery, salty aphrodisiac of foods to my mouth.

  It was good. Very good. I was still thinking about the unusual textures and flavors when the next in a procession of beautifully plated delicacies arrived.

  I didn’t quite get the creamed English peas and pork jowl, the marinated nectarines, the soft-boiled red hen egg in the shell that looked as though it were made of porcelain. But from the ecstatic expressions at my table and surrounding ones, I understood why the French Laundry was the gold standard for people with sophisticated taste.

  Three hours later, when we were sipping our coffee and sampling the wondrous variety of sweets, we convinced Dave to talk about himself.

  “Joey knows this, Lindsay, but my mom passed away just before you two got married. My dad and I were always close. But working together has really given us a—I don’t know what else to call it—a deep friendship.”

  Dave sighed.

  Joe put his hand on Dave’s arm and asked him what was wrong.

  Dave said, “Dad’s sick, in the hospital, and I’m very worried.”

  “Why? What happened?” Joe asked.

  “He has a thoracic aortic aneurysm brought on by high blood pressure. It’s grown to the size that might require surgery. His doctor prescribed him beta-blockers but says he’s got age-related system breakdown. But I’m not buying it. He’s seventy-two. He’s never been sick before.”

  Joe said, “I’m sorry to hear this, Dave.”

  “If you have any time, Joe, I know he’d like to see you. He was our biggest fan.”

  Joe looked down at the table. I’m pretty sure he was flashing back on those college football years, their families screaming from the stands.

  Joe lifted his eyes, looked at his friend, and asked, “When would be a good time to see him?”

  Chapter 10

  As we pulled out of the parking lot, I told Joe, “He’s great, Joe. I feel bad for him.”

  “It was good to see him. Hey, you’re sure it’s okay?”

  “Of course. You go see his dad and I’ll go to the spa.”

  Joe nodded, said, “I
’ll be back in time for dinner.”

  “Perfect,” I said. I was thinking of a massage, some kind of exotic wrap. Freak out the guys at work by getting a manicure. I could almost hear Brady saying, “What happened to you, Boxer?”

  I grinned, but when I turned to share my joke with Joe, he was in deep thought.

  He saw me out of the corner of his eye and said, “I can’t help but think about what his life might have been but for that bad turn in the road.” And then, “I think that a lot of guys who play pro ball have broken lives. Not just physically, but the fame and money and disappointments, all of that. I’m just glad he’s the Dave I know.”

  I nodded my agreement.

  He said, “And you, sweetie? How was your lunch?”

  “It was fabulous, the best meal I’ve ever had, and you know why? Because you thought of it, Joe. You made this great plan in a split second. You called Dave and got it done. You spent a bundle on lunch.”

  “What about the food? You didn’t mention the food.”

  “Well, may I be honest? I’m sure that I’m crazy and I should have loved the farm lamb and that steak thing and the green-pea puree and the whatever, but you know what I liked the best?”

  “Let me guess,” Joe said. “That little glazed donut at the end. Like a mini Krispy Kreme.”

  “Come on. How’d you know?”

  “One, you’re a cop. And two, you were making some very sexy noises.”

  “Huh. Maybe I was thinking about you.”

  “You were not.”

  “And since I’m going to the spa, I should be very relaxed and dreamy and smelling like flowers when you get back.”

  “Hold that thought,” said Joe.

  Chapter 11

  The Milliken Creek Inn is perched on a terraced hillside with views of the Napa River.

  I came back from the spa to our room with its balcony view of the river, its fireplace, and its huge bed with a novel feeling. I felt no stress whatsoever. No rush. No hurry. No worry. Nowhere to go and nothing to do—but rest.

 

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