Certain Prey
“The longer he listened, the more convinced he became that Lopez was a small-time dealer, supplementing the flower shop take with a little side money. The side money, Lucas decided, was going straight into his arm.
A woman named Nancy Holme, carried on Lopez’s state tax forms as an employee, did virtually all the work, showing up early to take deliveries of fresh-cut flowers, staying late over a hot computer. Lopez would arrive sleepy, nod off at midday, and leave sleepy. The Feebs couldn’t deci...de whether Holme was in on the game or not. She never took delivery of drugs. Lucas suggested that they look at her as the killer. They did, and rapidly concluded that she wasn’t.
The night before he left for Minneapolis, Lucas, Malone and Mallard went back to the Rink. The woman he’d danced with, the owner, wasn’t working, he was told. “She’s got to travel on business a couple of times a year, and this is one of those times. Too bad, she liked you,” a waitress told them, her overactive eyebrows semaphoring a tale of two ships passing in the night.MoreLess
A woman named Nancy Holme, carried on Lopez’s state tax forms as an employee, did virtually all the work, showing up early to take deliveries of fresh-cut flowers, staying late over a hot computer. Lopez would arrive sleepy, nod off at midday, and leave sleepy. The Feebs couldn’t deci...de whether Holme was in on the game or not. She never took delivery of drugs. Lucas suggested that they look at her as the killer. They did, and rapidly concluded that she wasn’t.
The night before he left for Minneapolis, Lucas, Malone and Mallard went back to the Rink. The woman he’d danced with, the owner, wasn’t working, he was told. “She’s got to travel on business a couple of times a year, and this is one of those times. Too bad, she liked you,” a waitress told them, her overactive eyebrows semaphoring a tale of two ships passing in the night.MoreLess
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