Her Deadly Game by Robert Dugoni EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Robert Dugoni
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June 2, 2023
Seattle, Washington
Keera Duggan peered across the King County courtroom to the swinging
wooden door and willed her father to walk in. Leaving him to lunch alone
had been a mistake.
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The bailiff entered from a door behind the elevated bench and
commanded the courtroom to rise as Superior Court Judge Ima Patel retook
her seat behind her desk, instructed the three people in the gallery to sit, and
invited Officer Greg Walsh to retake the witness stand. Walsh pushed
through the railing gate and made his way past the jurors. He looked official
in his navy-blue uniform and utility belt. His SPD badge glistened. Walsh
wore the belt at the request of the young prosecutor standing at the adjacent
table. Keera used to give officers the same advice, despite the efforts of
many judges to prohibit weapons in their courtrooms.
Patel turned her attention to Keera. “Counsel,” she said. “Will
Mr. Duggan be joining us this afternoon?”
Patrick Duggan had sparred with King County prosecutors for four
decades, including Ima Patel before she ascended to the bench. “Sparred”
was a polite term. Patsy had routinely knocked out prosecutors, earning his
nickname, the Irish Brawler, a moniker he wore as a badge of honor. The
prosecuting attorney’s office felt differently. Patsy had not been opposed to
hitting below the belt, throwing elbows in the clenches, and rabbit-punching
out of the break. He defended his clients the way he’d won a Golden Gloves
boxing tournament as a young man—any way he could. But alcohol abuse
had softened Patsy’s punches and slowed his reflexes, if not yet his razorsharp mind, and prosecutors and jurists on the King County bench knew
well his binge drinking. When she’d been a prosecutor, Keera had heard
colleagues in the office say, “If you want a chance to beat the Brawler, save
your best witnesses for the afternoons, and hope Patsy Duggan goes on a
bender.”
Clancy Doyle, apparently now Keera’s client, looked at the empty
chair at counsel table with genuine concern. With good reason. Keera sat
second chair at this DUI trial only at the insistence of her eldest sister, Ella,
now the managing partner of Patrick Duggan & Associates. Babysitting
duty. Ella had suspected Patsy to be on the brink of a binge. Damned if she
hadn’t been right.
Keera knew almost nothing about the details of Doyle’s case.
“Counsel?” Patel asked, sounding impatient.
Keera rose and tugged at the lapels of her black suit. “Mr. Duggan has
been detained,” she said, as if her father had a dental appointment that had
run long. “I’ll conduct the cross-examination of Officer Walsh.”
Patel’s lips nearly inched into a grin. Keera clearly wasn’t fooling at
least one person in the courtroom. “Proceed,” Patel said.
Officer Walsh looked tightly wound as Keera approached. He
expected a confrontation. The prosecuting attorney, also young, inched to
the edge of her chair, prepared to stand and defend Walsh with objections
and interruptions intended to throw Keera off her game.
They wouldn’t.
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