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“Interfere in what, their complete dereliction of duty? Jane, you’ve known the Talleys most of your life. You babysat that girl. You can’t ignore a missing-persons case just because you’ve got bigger fish to fry.”
“A dead body isn’t a fish, Ma.”
“Well, Tricia could be a dead body. Is that what it’ll take to get you interested?”
Jane rubbed her temple, trying to stave off an incipient headache. “Okay, okay. I’ll come by tomorrow.”
“When?”
“Sometime in the afternoon. I’ve got to view an autopsy. And I have a lot of things I need to follow up on.”
“Oh, and you know those new people across the street? The Greens?”
“Are you still spying on them?”
“There’s some kind of weird hammering going on in their house. You know what Homeland Security says. ‘If you see something, say something.’ Well, I’m just saying something.”
Yeah, Ma. You always do.
