The local police have been useless, prejudiced, as they are, against the entire Reddy family as a pack of lazy troublemakers. (Everyone in the nearest village has sussed out by Celtic telepathy that the American-who-bought-the-cottage is an ex-cop.) Eventually, Trey confesses the real reason he’s been hanging around: He wants Cal to find out what happened to his beloved 19-year-old brother, Brendan, who vanished from the family cottage months ago. One thing Trey doesn’t need to learn is that Cal is an ex-cop. Before long, Trey is coming around regularly to help Cal and to learn carpentry. When Cal corners the voyeur, he turns out to be a wayward adolescent named Trey Reddy, who lives on a nearby mountain with his single mother and siblings. The back of his neck - “trained over twenty-five years in the Chicago PD” - registers a watcher, someone who’s been creeping around the cottage and disturbing the nesting rooks. But, as the mists of autumn close in, Cal realizes that he’s not as alone as he thought.
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