The Borzoi Killings

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Brad Richardson’s office at the estate was a light-filled room lined with glass walls overlooking the lawn that led to the dunes. Whenever he stood, he saw the Atlantic Ocean over the low, reedy expanse of Egypt Beach and the silver crests of the waves collapsing onto the shore.

He loved the office, as he loved the sprawling house itself, in late October when the trees started to change colors and the lawn, no matter how well-watered and tended by Juan Suarez, stopped growing. Around the house were the flat potato and corn fields that had dominated this whole area when he was a boy and his parents owned a saltbox summer house on Main Street in East Hampton. Now, even all these years later, large tracts of farmland were still here near the Atlantic shore, along with some new houses, all large, rising out of the distant fields.

The house was quiet on this Tuesday morning. His wife Joan was in the city at their Fifth Avenue apartment, Juan had the day off as he did every Tuesday, and Brad had told the cooks not to bother coming to work since he intended to go into East Hampton and pick up food for lunch. He looked forward to driving on the village’s broad Main Street lined by ancient trees and stately houses. In October the famous village was largely empty; the restless crowds of the summer were gone; and on this day, under a flawless autumn sky, it was one of the most beautiful places on earth.

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