Sakaguchi left in a rush for a meeting before Hiroshi had a chance to ask him about Nine Dragons. So, Hiroshi caught a ride back to headquarters with the same young detective who’d driven him to the apartment in Azabu. Hiroshi had seen her in meetings, but never spoken to her. He was supposed to know her name.
It was good to see one of the female detectives out in the field. Most were still young, and hired recently, so they ended up making calls, reviewing video, compiling data, and redoing forms instead of gaining hands-on experience.
This case looked like a matter of catching the husband. An American with two little girls should be easy to spot. Still, with the kind of money that size of an apartment meant, there might be more to it. Was he making that much money? Or were they the kin
