“You graduated from Old Orchard Beach with honors. You went to the University of Maine in Orono majoring in Criminology with a minor in Psychology. After graduation you spent six years in the State Police Department. During a nasty murder investigation, you assisted and I suspect caught the eye of the then chief of Portland Police Mike Chitwood. A year later you were brought in to the Portland Police Department as a detective. You went back to college for the next six years taking classes and earning a doctorate in criminal psychology, which you just received six months before I became your partner. You’re given the toughest cases and the only one you haven’t cleared from the books is the death of Mrs. Dr. Jason Ridge, who was found buried in Deering Oaks Park under the shavings at the playground. Your personal life is not very exciting as you work almost constantly. You had one serious relationship that lasted four years but you didn’t get engaged, which I suspect is why she left you. Lastly your father and mother are still alive and living in your childhood home and you have supper with them every Friday night, almost without fail. Which by the way is three days from now.

What Claire knows about Jack from Three Card Monte

Jack Chamberlain

Jack Chamberlain - Physical Description from Three Card Monte

Jack's favorite gun

Heckler & Koch P2000 SK

.357 rounds at a light 8 lbs.

I took a moment in the full-length mirror on the back of the bathroom door to look over myself after I had dressed. My hair, a light brown that used to bleach out to an almost blonde in the summer when I was a kid, was cut short above the collar and parted slightly left of center. I had a diamond shaped face with a slightly elongated nose typical of my English heritage. During my State trooper days, I had been nicknamed Sherlock, after Sherlock Holmes, but the name had not carried over to the Portland Police, not that I cared as I respected the fictional character and had read each story several times. I had been told before that I had strong angular facial features by my mother’s friends over the years and had avoided successfully the many “meet my daughter” attempts to set me up.

Physically I was in good shape and took after my father’s side, and since he had never developed the tell tale spare tire of a majority of middle aged men, I figured with regular exercise I had a good shot of doing the same. All in all, I decided, not a bad catch.