Chapter 3Cal and Gale joined them in the office at that point, Gale taking a seat on the sofa while Cal stood by the desk as they listened to the conversation about the murder victim.
“Let me see what they’ve come up with,” Marcus said as he closed the site he was on, after printing out the information on Howe and Peters. Then he went to another one to find out what the police and the ME had learned about the victim, if anything. “All right,” he said a few minutes later. “Tentatively identified as William or Bill Otis. It won’t be confirmed until the next of kin are notified. There’s a morgue photo, Russ, if you want to see if he’s someone you recognize.”
“How bad?” Russ asked.
“Let’s say there’s no chance you’d think he was alive.”
Russ took a deep breath and looked, trying to ignore
