20“A test?” I repeated. “What do you have in mind?”
“Nothing complicated,” Dawna said. “You stay here. Keep working on your project. The guilty parties will expose themselves by trying to get to you. We’ll know which of us is right.”
Disbelief raised the pitch of my voice. “You want me to set myself up for target practice?”
She waggled her hand in a minimizing gesture. “Copenhagen cops have assigned a protective detail to your flat. We can take other precautions.” She dropped her voice so I had to lean closer. “You want to find out who offed your partner, you have to do this.”
Her scheme might expose Gerry’s killer. It might get me killed, too. I said, “You proposed this to Blixenstjerne. And he vetoed the idea.”
“He couldn’t ask a civilian to take so big a risk. That’s what he said.”
