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Ben was not waiting at La Baraque like Molly imagined, but headed down the N21 to Bergerac to meet Léo Lagasse, having stopped off at Pâtisserie Bujold for a little something with which to tempt Léo.
As he drove, Ben let his mind wander over the facts of the Petit case, thin as they were. He had not managed to verify Franck’s alibi—that was the only faint possibility so far. Certainly the young man had suffered at the hands of his father, and who was to say how much suffering is enough to push a person to murder? It was true that Franck seemed like a good guy, the most decent fellow in the world, actually. Perhaps he had murdered his father out of an excess of concern for the rest of the world.
But Ben guessed that the details of his alibi would no doubt fall into place eventually an
