“I will.'
'That puts you in control. I don’t like that.'
'But you’ll take it.' She smiled wryly. 'Because you’re an obsessed man, Spiro. You want Dom almost as much as I do.'
'More. Because I know what he is and what he can do. You’re seeing him only from a personal point of view.'
'You’re right, my interest couldn’t be more intensely personal. Deal?' Spiro hesitated. 'Deal.'
'May I speak now?' Joe asked grimly. 'I seem to have been left out in the cold again.'
'We need him, Joe. It was the only way to get him.'
'You could have let me give something else a shot first.' He turned to Spiro. 'You’d better try damn hard to catch that bastard, or I may declare your little deal null and void. In the most violent way possible.'
Spiro acted as if he hadn’t heard him. His gaze had shifted back to the grave site. 'I’m calling the Phoenix PD to help excavate the site. That means I don’t want either of you anywhere near this place. I’ll tell them I received a tip about the grave from one of my informants.' He looked at Eve. 'I’m sending a man to your house with equipment for tracing and taping Dom’s calls. I don’t have much hope, but we’ve got to give it a try.' He headed for the car. 'I’m calling the Phoenix PD now. Get out of here.'
'When will we know what you find?' Eve asked.
'I’ll phone you tonight with a preliminary report.' He smiled sardonically over his shoulder.
'Just so you can be sure I’m working my ass off. Okay?'
'Okay.' She looked at Joe. 'I’ll see you back at the house, Joe.”
“I’ll be a while,' he said. 'I believe I’ll go down to the precinct, look at the files and talk to Charlie Cather. I’m feeling uptight as hell. I need to do something.'
The call from Spiro came at eight forty-five that evening. 'It’s Debby Jordan.'
'Positive?' Eve asked.
'Too early for DNA, but we got a match on the teeth.”
“He didn’t pull her teeth?'
'I was surprised too. Or maybe not. And from what we could tell, he nearly carved her to pieces. He must have been in a frenzy.'
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'Enough to forget something as important as her teeth?”
“I’m just telling you what we found.'
'Anything else?'
'Yes, there was a candle in her right hand. A taper. Pale pink.' She showed me the light and then I showed her the light.
'Can you trace the candle?'
'We’ll give it a try. The problem is that candles have become so popular, everyone’s manufacturing them these days.'
That was true. Even Mom liked to light candles in the bathroom when she soaked in the tub.
'When will you get the autopsy report?'
'Tomorrow at the earliest.'
'Call me if you learn anything else, Spiro.'
'Oh, you’ve decided you’ve wrung me dry and are throwing me away? I’ll call you tomorrow.'
He hung up.
Candles.
Light.
I showed her the light. What did it mean to him?
Frenzy. It was difficult to imagine Dom in a frenzy. He was too cool and deliberate. Yet he had said that Debby Jordan was a turning point for him.
'Eve.'
She saw Jane standing in the doorway. 'Hi. How’s Monty doing?”
“I don’t know.' She shrugged. 'Okay. I guess. I’m hungry. You want me to make you a sandwich too?'
Something was wrong. She was too indifferent. Why had she left Monty’s side? 'Sure. I’d like that.'
'You don’t have to come with me. I’ll bring it here to the office for you.' She disappeared down the hall.
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