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that he hadn’t seen her since Friday afternoon.”
“Hale did not kill my sister.”
“A neighbor saw a white truck outside the crime scene that night. Your sister’s car was parked there, and the truck was just down the street.”
“Hale drives a black TrailBlazer. I just saw him getting into it.”
“Bancroft Development trucks are all white. That was confirmed by St. Cloud as well.”
“Jesus, Lang.”
“I’m just telling you what I know.”
“Then it’s someone else. Someone . . . maybe . . . Kristina was involved with.”
Lang gave her a long look. “Are you saying she was involved with someone?”
“I’m saying that I have some other ideas. Not Hale St. Cloud. Where’s the evidence report on the Donatellas?”
“You still want that?”
“Yes, I want it.” Savvy was sick of being treated like she was somehow deficient in her skills as a detective.
“Okay, but I want to know what you’re thinking about your sister. Hamett and Evinrud already want to talk to you.”
“I need to talk to Hale first.”
“Savvy. What the hell? I’m telling you he’s a suspect. You can’t talk to—”
“Not about the case,” she snapped in frustration. “About his wife. My sister. And whether he thought she might be having an affair. That’s what I want to talk to him about. If he doesn’t know, I want to be the one to tell him.”
“Let Hamett and—”
“No! That’s just what I’m saying! You’re not listening. Owen DeWitt suggested that Kristina might have met someone . . . at the Donatellas’. Someone she was meeting there.”
“Holy shit . . .”
“That’s why I want to talk to Hale first. I don’t think he killed my sister, but believe me, if he did, I’ll be first in line to string him up.”
“You’re too close to this.”
“God damn it, Lang.” Savvy jumped to her feet just as O’Halloran looked into the squad room.
“When you have a minute, want to come to my office?” he said.
“We’re not done,” Lang said as Savannah headed after O’Halloran. When Savvy ignored him, he added, “You said you got some files from Bancroft Development?”
She stopped at the door to the sheriff’s office and called back, “They’re in my Escape, which is at Isaac’s Towing by now, most likely.”
“Ah. Okay. I’ll get somebody to retrieve them.”
“I looked them over. I don’t think there was anything there.”
He nodded as if he heard her, but she realized, with another spurt of renewed anger, that he thought she was just covering up for Hale some more. Her heart was pumping wildly, she realized as she entered O’Halloran’s sanctum. Hale wasn’t involved. He wasn’t. But he was being targeted like a main suspect, and what did that mean for little Declan? And how come he hadn’t told her about the interview with the cops?
And who could have wanted to kill her sister? Kristina had had her issues, yes, but she wasn’t a bad person. Was it Declan Jr.? Whose sexual lure might be as powerful as his mother’s. Who maybe had drawn Savvy’s sister under his spell so powerfully that she thought it was sorcery. Whose sickness and lust for revenge or payback or bloodlust, or whatever, had put them all in his sights, the women of Siren Song and Declan Bancroft, and herself as well.
Did that even sound like a sane argument?
