DETECTIVE CURTIS CAME to the lab to check on the techs’ progress. The victim’s clothes were being analysed for clues at Trace. Hopefully, the result would give them an idea where Thomas had been before he was fatally shot. The last time he was seen by his work colleagues was Friday, around six p.m. Everyone had clocked out early to enjoy a relaxing drink or a night out, and only Thomas stayed back. No-one saw him on Saturday; by Sunday at eleven a.m. he was dead.
All anyone could say for sure was, ‘He was on to something.’
In the last two months, Thomas and five other CPAs had been hard at work at the head office of the mining giant Rio Diaz Mining Corp of Canada, a subsidiary of an even bigger American mining conglomerate.
As forensic accountants, they worked at the client’s HQ and onl
