Chapter Thirty-nine
When court resumed the following day, Oscar carefully led their client through her evidence in chief. Jessica denied any knowledge of the marriage proposal or how the bottle of shrimp paste could have been located in her garage, which was always kept securely locked. When asked if she had caused her husband’s death, she was the perfect grief-stricken widow, with just the correct mixture of sadness at his demise and outrage over the charge of murder. The measured coldness that Matthew had observed earlier in the interview room had vanished, and a polished performer was now on display.
During Oscar’s gentle questioning, Del Assandro smiled like a benevolent friend and raised no objections, but Matthew could feel the undercurrent of tension building as cross-examination
