She had, of course, discussed all this with former police chief Edward Shank, who’d generously answered all of her questions. The Chief wasn’t buying her theory, of course, but neither did he disapprove of Sam’s current work in progress. In fact, her boyfriend’s grandfather seemed to be very interested in what she came up with, and often called to ask how the research was going. He’d even bought her a textbook for Christmas called Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques, which was the same textbook police officers used to study homicide before taking the
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