Chapter 9Sensational murders didn’t happen often in Colby County.
Traffic fatalities were as common there as anywhere, and, in the City of Colby especially, deaths due to drug overdoses happened with a distressing frequency. Colby had its gangs, and deaths resulting from turf wars were the most frequent kinds of murder, followed closely by those resulting from domestic violence.
In this case, however, the wife of a prominent realtor had been suffocated with a pillow. Grant wanted very much to handle the case himself, but that wasn’t in his job description anymore. So, with a regretful sigh, he assigned the case to Marlowe. He knew Phil would do a good job. But he also planned to keep close tabs on the progress of the investigation.
The obvious place to start was with the husband. He’d b
