CHAPTER 23Detective Inspector Victor Simmons listened patiently to Virginia Steele’s confession that she had been Alex Chadwell’s killer, not Barry O’Donnell’s sister. Only when Virginia intimated that Rick Morelli was still alive, having escaped from the dockside caravan blaze did Simmons’ features transform to those of a man twenty years his senior. She was through with running, with lying for Morelli, and with acting, she confided to the stunned policeman. She continued to love Morelli despite the fact he was still in love with Christy O’Donnell, despite the fact that he was plotting to dispense with her usefulness, to kill her. But whatever happened to her now she didn’t really care. It was Barry however, who warned that Simmons had been singled out as a potential target by Morelli, bi
