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SWEDISH
The investigation was not going well.
Every instinct Anna possessed told her John Malcolm had something to do with Richard Falstaff's death. Yet theories made a poor witness in a court of law. She needed evidence, and so far, none had surfaced to support the idea Malcolm had anything to do with it. As expected, when Anna interviewed the staff in the financial department where Falstaff worked, their stories differed little from the statements Malcolm had prepared for her. Whatever the truth about Richard's death, she would not get it from them.
Anna suspected Falstaff was not just a senior accountant. She knew this even before she searched his office. When she conducted her examination, little was discovered to justify his murder. Except the office appeared too spartan, like
