Chapter 12
Kitka woke up with the perfect plan of action in place. He leaned back and thought it through: First, he was sure Candace Marshall knew more than she said. Her very questions, her few comments, revealed much for him to work on. Like an old man teaching fables, he thought with amusement. You learn from them by listening in the silences.
What he needed to do was expose her to every step of the investigation. Her comments, her questions, her very gestures would be clues of the direction he needed to take.
And if she were the murderer, the trail would lead to her feet. If she wasn't, he'd pry out of her what she knew.
Besides, he felt like every time he let her out of his sight, someone tried to kill her. What did she know that she wasn't telling, he wondered again?
The morning
