Tessa hung up and stared straight ahead, her thoughts bouncing around inside her head. The one at the forefront of her mind screamed that she should’ve recorded the call with Terry Pratt, the private investigator she’d hired.
She’d originally asked him to look into Ryan Harper, so Tessa would be armed with all the information she needed to help Janey make a decision about how or when or even if she should approach him.
She hadn’t taken that from Terry’s plate, but she’d also forwarded him all of the articles Julia had found about Rick Fry, as well as the pictures from the summer of 1974, and she’d asked him to find everything he could about the case, about Rick, about Riggs Friedman, and about little missing Louisa.
He’d given Tessa a fairly substantial background on Ryan Harper last we
