In 2010, while Morrie Bellamy is still in prison, Pete Saubers and his family end up moving into the criminal’s former home, and it’s shortly thereafter that he finds the buried trunk. After he pleads guilty, he is sentenced to life in prison, and the woman he violated testifies against his parole at every opportunity. Going out to a bar that night, he gets blackout drunk, and when he wakes up he is in a jail cell, having been arrested not for the Rothstein murder and robbery, but instead for rape, aggravated assault, and resisting arrest.
When Morrie goes to an old friend and unscrupulous book seller named Andrew Halliday to tell him about the crime, he understands that having the notebooks is dangerous, and he makes the decision to stash them along with Rothstein’s money in a plastic-lined trunk that he buries on the property of his childhood home. Less interested in money, he wants to get his hands on rumored unpublished works written in notebooks that continue Jimmy’s story, and when he finds them, he ends up killing Rothstein as well as Curtis and Freddy.
While Curtis and Freddy are solely interested in the cash that the writer has, Morrie is a fanatic who has long resented Rothstein because of the way he ended a trilogy of books centering on a character named Jimmy Gold. Going back to the year 1978 (31 years before Brady Hartsfield drove a Mercedes into a line at a jobs fair), the novel begins as Morrie and two associates, Curtis Rogers and Freddy Dow, break into the home of reclusive author John Rothstein.
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