Two days later, when Jack got back to the police station after working some angles on a few cases, he decided to do some Internet research on the band Lightning. For one thing, every member of the band appeared to have been gay, but at least in their public life, none of them had ever admitted to mixing with their fellow band mates. Apparently, according to the band’s website—Jack hadn’t known ex-bands had websites—they’d bonded and formed Lightning because they had all been struggling for acceptance as homosexuals in the mostly heterosexual world of rock music. Something else Chad had failed to mention was that he had been driving the bus that crashed and killed his fellow band members. It appeared it had just been a terrible accident, a tire blew out, and there had been no charges file

