Chapter Thirty-Two“B
rooke saw Anthony Mullen and Coach Boyle together at the Town Tavern. She gave Mullen money to keep Kyle at Garland and agreed to give Lindsay a passing grade in Trigonometry. Frank found out, flipped, and killed Brooke—accidentally during an argument or intentionally in the heat of the moment.” I gave Will a connect-the-dots summary to a “Frank’s guilty” conclusion.
Will didn’t fully embrace my theory. “That’s a lot of smoke. Maybe. It could also be a bunch of assumptions you’ve drawn. Lindsay could have studied her brains out, had an aha moment about trigonometry, and legitimately passed the final.”
I didn’t want to express doubt over Will’s counter explanation. “I really hope Lindsay did earn her grade honestly. I’m fond of her and hate the possibility she’s tang
