The Pallbearers (Shane Scully Novels)
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Suspense
Walter Pop Dix was the director of Huntington House, an orphanage and halfway house for children in between foster homes. He was a surrogate father to hundreds of troubled kids, among them Shane Scully of the LAPD. Dix was also a surfer, and among the few fond memories Scully has of his childhood are the early-morning surf sessions with Dix at Huntington Beach. Scully had lost touch with his mentor, though, until word arrives that Dix has committed suicide. In his papers, Dix names Scully, along with five other former residents of the home, as his preferred pallbearers. The six concur that Dix would never have committed suicide, and Scully reluctantly agrees to look into the already-closed investigation. The case drags Scully and his ragtag team into the brutal world of professional mixed martial arts fighting and into an elaborate embezzlement scheme involving Huntington House and several other child-care facilities. Cannell, a television producer (The A-Team and The Rockford Files, a
