Chapter Fourteen
Grayson stepped out of the car, his face lined with concern. Seeing Burton looking for a way to escape, he hurried up to him. “Is it true, then?” he asked.
That sounded like a leading question to me. Grayson likely had absolutely no idea what was going on in the James house. After all, the only people besides the state police who knew about the murder were Tanya (who might not even end up telling her own mother), and Burton and I.
“Is what true?” asked Burton, shuttering his eyes with a blank expression.
Grayson hesitated and then said, “That there’s an incident here at the mayor’s house. A neighbor called the paper.”
Burton sighed and said, “Journalists will be the end of me. Just understand the department doesn’t have an official statement to make at this time. Off-
