“You’re sitting there looking at this pile of unassociated data, and everyone is clamoring for an arrest.”
“Clamoring,” Jesse said. “He was a friend of the governor’s.”
“Oh God!” Sunny said.
“Uh-huh.”
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“We both know the first person to look at in a murder case,” Sunny said.
“
“There’s three ex-wives,” Jesse said. “The current significant other got killed with him.”
“Did she have a significant other,” Sunny said, “besides Walton?”
“Good thought,” Jesse said. “We don’t know yet.”
“You know what connection he had to Paradise?”
“Nope.”
“You know his connection to the governor?” Sunny said.
“Nope.”
“How about the bodyguard?” Sunny said.
“You’ve been following the case,” Jesse said.
“I read the papers with interest,” Sunny said. “I am tight with one of the cops involved.”
“I suspected as much,” Jesse said. “Bodyguard was a cop in Baltimore.”
“You check that out?”
“Not yet,” Jesse said. “If he were lying, why would he lie about something so easy to check?”
“Gun?”
“Carries a nine-millimeter Glock,” Jesse said. “We testfired it. It isn’t the murder weapon.”
“You’ll find him,” Sunny said. “Or her. Or them.”
“Sometimes you don’t,” Jesse said.
“I know.”
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H I G H P R O F I L E
They were silent. Jesse thought he heard Sunny swallow.
“You having a drink?” he said.
“White wine,” Sunny said. “Are you having scotch?”
“I am,” Jesse said.
