Jack Fredrickson
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A Safe Place for Dying: A Mystery
Jack Fredrickson
An extortion letter arrives at Crystal Waters, one of Chicago’s wealthiest gated communities. It makes no specific threats, gives no instructions, demands only that $50,000 be gotten ready—chump change for an enclave where the cheapest house is worth three million. It’s easy to see it as harmless—a note from a nut.
Then a mansion explodes.
They hire Dek Elstrom to investigate. Dek used to live with his multimillionaire wife at Crystal Waters. Now reduced to living in a crumbling stone turret, bankrupt of everything but attitude, he’s not even his own ideal choice for the job. He’s too broke, however, to question the motives of a gift-horse client. He needs the money—and the chance to reconnect with his ex-wife.
Another bomb goes off, and Dek realizes the culprit must be someone who is angry, needs money, and used to live at Crystal Waters. Then he realizes something else. He himself is the prime suspect.
