AS THE SUN CONTINUED its downward path on the horizon, Perez and Stevens stood in the grass next to where Edward Baker had fallen.
“You see what I see?” Stevens asked.
“Yep,” Perez said. “This spot lines up perfectly with the cupola, and the angle’s just about right, too.”
To Doug, the caretaker, he said, “Can you unlock the hospital for us, please?”
“Sure thing,” Doug replied. “And no worries about the alarm system. When they told me ya’ll were coming back I kinda figured you’d want to look for fingerprints and stuff, so, I asked them to turn off the alarm from the main panel. That way I don’t have to touch the keypad again and add more for ya’ll to wade through.”
“Good thinking,” Perez said, nodding in approval. “A lot of folks wouldn’t have thought of that.”
“I watch a lot of crim
