Jonathan Kellerman - The Murderer's Daughter

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A brilliant, deeply dedicated psychologist, Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches — perhaps because she bears her own invisible scars: Only five years old when she witnessed her parents’ deaths in a bloody murder-suicide, Grace took refuge in her fierce intellect and found comfort in the loving couple who adopted her. But even as an adult with an accomplished professional life, Grace still has a dark, secret side. When her two worlds shockingly converge, Grace’s harrowing past returns with a vengeance.
Both Grace and her newest patient are stunned when they recognize each other from a recent encounter. Haunted by his bleak past, mild-mannered Andrew Toner is desperate for Grace’s renowned therapeutic expertise and more than willing to ignore their connection. And while Grace is tempted to explore his case, which seems to eerily echo her grim early years, she refuses — a decision she regrets when a homicide detective appears on her doorstep.
An evil she thought she’d outrun has reared its head again, but Grace fears that a police inquiry will expose her double life. Launching her own personal investigation leads her to a murderously manipulative foe, one whose warped craving for power forces Grace back into the chaos and madness she’d long ago fled.

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Training consists of showing everyone the thick leather gloves they’ll need to wear as they position both arms awkwardly behind their heads cupping the wire but not touching it. The only way to slow down or brake is to grip the wire and without gloves, that would sever a hand as if it were lunch meat.

It’s all a matter of pressure, explains the surfer-in-charge, an African with heavy eyelids and a beautiful British accent.

Too “delicate” and you’ll mess up your wrists and keep going anyway.

Too “clamping” and you’ll come to a halt prematurely and get stuck dangling half a mile up with no one able to reach you. Should that occur, the only remedy is self-help: reversing the position of your hands, which will spin you in the opposite direction and leave you with your back to your destination.

Then: laboriously, hand over hand, moving blindly, you will haul yourself to safety and hope for the best. Should you grow fatigued?

The African winks and shrugs.

Grace hangs back and waits until the other four have begun, then approaches another surfer, a Latino with stoned glazed eyes.

“I want to do it alone.”

“Senorita—”

“How much?”

“We don’t do that?”

Grace repeats the questions. The surfer’s brows knit. He consults two other surfers, cites an outrageous price.

Grace laughs and names her price.

The surfers react with feigned outrage.

Ninety seconds later, an agreement is reached.

She waits until the message comes down the line: The group has completed ten stations, slowed a bit by several instances of “self-help.”

The African says, “Okay,” and he and Grace set out.

Everything goes smoothly until on her final ride, heading toward the twentieth station where tequila and champagne await, she grips the wire hard midway through her hurtle.

She dangles.

Doesn’t move.

Silence wafts through the jungle. Then: birdcalls. Then a distant prop plane.

Finally, the African behind her yells, “What?”

Grace doesn’t answer.

His voice rises. So does that of the blond surfer, probably a Scandinavian, waiting for her at the other end.

She dangles.

Both men are shouting.

Grace hears the word “crazy.”

She laughs.

Now the Swede or whatever he is stands near the lip of the twentieth platform and points at her beseechingly.

“Change the hands.”

Grace kicks her legs ever so slightly. The wire hums. She moves back and forth, kicking some more, like a kid on a swing. Playing the wire, setting off a musical note.

The surfers scream.

The music blocks out everything.

She thinks of red rooms, many red rooms, a scarlet labyrinth.

A small black convertible speeding up a road that turns red.

Looking up, she examines the clasps that hold her to the harness that connects to the wire.

How easy it would be...

The African screams.

The Swede screams.

Only when remnants of reality have been blotted out does Grace act.

Closing her eyes, she shifts hands.

Rotates.

What if she did unbuckle a clip?

What would falling that far and that fast feel like?

Would anyone care?

No matter, she would.

Smiling, every muscle functioning precisely the way it was intended, she pulls herself to safety.

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