Something Missing_ A Novel - Matthew Dicks [129]
“Change of plans. Dinner at my place,” he would announce, without even saying hello. Give her a taste of her own medicine. “And I’m doing the cooking.”
He would cook her favorite dish, chicken marsala, and he would order half a dozen black and white cookies from the Elm-wood Pastry Shop in hopes that she might still be around for dessert. Over wine and dinner, Martin would tell Laura his story, and he would hope and pray for the best.
He wondered where he would begin.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matthew Dicks grew up in the small town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. He was a Boy Scout, a pole-vaulter, a bassoonist, and a proud member of his school’s drum corps, and he has the distinction of having died twice by the age of eighteen before being revived by paramedics on both occasions. He left home at eighteen and worked in a variety of dead-end jobs until being robbed at gunpoint at the age of twenty-two. This brush with death finally propelled him to college, where he worked his way through school as the manager of a McDonald’s restaurant, graduating from Manchester Community College, Trinity College with an English degree, and Saint Joseph’s College with a teaching degree. Following graduation, Matthew went to work as an elementary school teacher and has been teaching ever since. In 2005 he was named West Hartford’s Teacher of the Year. He also owns and operates a DJ company that performs weddings throughout Connecticut. His writing has appeared in the Hartford Courant, the Christian Science Monitor, Educational Leadership, and the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service.
Matthew lives in Newington, Connecticut, with his wife and colleague, Elysha, their newborn daughter, Clara, their Lhasa apso, Kaleigh, and their bulimic housecat, Owen.
While Something Missing is eerily well-researched, Matthew Dicks has confirmed he is not, himself, a thief.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Matthew Dicks
All Rights Reserved
Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Dicks, Matthew.
Something missing / Matthew Dicks.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Burglars—Fiction. 2. Connecticut—Fiction. 3 Suspense
fiction. gsafd I. Title.
PS3604.I302S66 2009
813′.6—dc22
2008032052
eISBN: 978-0-7679-3218-9
v3.0
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
About the Author
Copyright