More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“I’m sure it doesn’t mean anything,” Karen says. She waits until the doctor is almost at the door, and then adds, at the last moment, “I don’t think you need to mention it to my husband.”
They’d get fingerprints from the body and see if there was anything matching them on file. If they couldn’t ID him through the prints, they’d have to go through missing persons, which would be tedious, but much of police work is tedious. It’s often the tedious work that pays off.
He leans back in the passenger seat, rather pleased. The case has taken an interesting turn. He loves it when that happens.
Maybe he’d feel more like telling her the truth if she went first.
Someday, Tom will see that Karen being taken away in handcuffs was the best thing that ever happened to him.
Which means someone else must have planted it there. There’s only one person he can think of who would do that. And he’s sleeping with her.
How quickly things change, he thinks. Just yesterday he was telling himself that this case had become quite straightforward, that all the pieces of the puzzle were slipping nicely into place. But now he’s feeling like the picture that’s emerging isn’t the same as the one on the box.
