Brian Holloway came out to the house on Shell Island to crack a safe. It is his job and one he has been doing for quite awhile. The owner, a Mr. Robinette, is rather difficult from the start and is clearly more trouble than he is worth and he is obviously worth a lot of money. Brian would like to tell the guy what he can do with his job, his safe, and the house the jerk lives in.

But, Brian is married and there is a baby on the way. Money is money whether it comes from nice folks or jerks. Besides the house is a bit of a legend. The safe in the floor is nothing like he has ever seen before so, despite everything, he is intrigued.

Opening it is going to create quite a few problems.

The Safe Man: A Ghost Story is an enjoyable read. It is a complicated tale that pretty much has everything resolved by the end of the read. It also sets up the preview of The Wrong Side of Goodbye that takes up about half of this eBook.

The Safe Man: A Ghost Story
Michael Connelly
https://www.michaelconnelly.com/2012/10/22/the-safe-man-a-short-story/
Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Book Group)
https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/michael-connelly/the-safe-man/9780316233682/
October 2012
ISBN# 978-0-316-23368-2
eBook (also available in audio format)
86 Pages

Material was obtained from the Dallas Library System by way of the Libby app.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2020 ( )

Un homme trouve un coffre dans un plancher de sa maison et fait venir en spécialiste pour l’ouvrir. Sa fille disparaît, on la retrouve et elle dit qu’elle voit une autre fille dans la maison ( )

Published for the first time under his own name, a dark and haunting story from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Michael Connelly

Like his father before him, Brian Holloway is a safe man. That is, his specialty is opening safes. Every job is a little mystery, and he has yet to encounter a lock he can't break or a box he can't crack. But the day Holloway gets called in to open a rare, antique safe in a famous author's library, his skills open a door that should have remained closed.

In this haunting and singular story, previously published anonymously, Michael Connelly proves once again that he is "superb at building suspense.... the reader can never be sure what sudden turns the plot may take" (*Wall Street Journal*).

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