Depositions

The writer Lawrence Castle sat impatiently waiting in his son's legal office to keep a luncheon appointment. The bored author flipped through a box of depositions earmarked for storage. Always looking for a plot for his next book Castle was fascinated by the depositions he read: Robert Garrity a respected citizen and community leader had been recently indicted for tax fraud and killed in a one-car accident just before the trial.<p>With more than a million dollars of life insurance in question his son's law firm was hired to prove the death was a suicide. However the case was settled out-of-court. What piqued Castle's detective mind was the fact that Garrity had been wearing a three-piece suit and house slippers at the time of his death. Curious he thought.<p>As he read more Castle discovered parallels between his life and Garrity. Fascinated by the similarities Castle decides to travel to Garrity's home town in search of a story for his next novel. His arrival and subsequent investigation opens old scars that residents and family members do not want questioned. Depositions reveals a terrible truth buried eight years earlier and uncovered through the tenacity and persistence of this snoopy author.