Together we carefully tugged Cody’s body from beneath the bed. He was dead, his eyes wide open and striated with red, the mark of death by strangulation. A white bed sheet had been wrapped around his neck and tightened until death.
Gary freaked out and had to return to the office, probably to take a couple of tranquilizers. That was fine with me. I had a few minutes to snoop around unaccompanied before the police arrived. I called Ferdy Etienne to let him know what I’d discovered. “The police will want to interview the guests but I doubt any of them will admit to having those rainbow pills.”
“Keep me in the loop.”
A pair of uniformed officers arrived a few minutes later, along with crime scene techs and a homicide detective I’d met before, Ana Cespedes. She was about my age, a petite wo
