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I shook my head. I’m all for some creativity when dealing with law enforcement. But lying about someone else shooting you, implicating an innocent person—even a dead one—in attempted murder …
“Why, has he been arrested? He didn’t threaten Lisa, did he?” Graeme asked.
“No, he’s dead. Suicide,” Ray said.
“Where’d you hear that he killed himself?” I asked.
“That detective told me. Big guy, older,” Ray said.
Detective Lowry. It made sense that Lowry wouldn’t care much about Lisa’s statement if he’d just found out Jenkins committed suicide, but why would he have told Ray and not us?
Even with the door shut, the howling sounds outside were growing louder, punctuated by the pings of small objects striking the walls. Suddenly I was glad the shed didn’t have windows. And I wasn’t the only
