CHAPTER 5
LYLE HAD PROMISED to get me more information on the crime scene, but waiting for my requests to materialise was like watching a glacier melt. I got Mack to take another look, but as the cops were convinced the Ghost was guilty; they hadn’t put a rush on the forensics, and a lot of the samples were backed up at the lab. For a moment, I considered calling in a favour and having someone bump the testing up the line, but ultimately, I decided against it. Favours were like currency in my world, and I didn’t have many stored up with the forensics team. Better to save them for cases that weren’t open-and-shut and where the clients were actually paying us.
Cases I desperately needed to catch up on, even with my efforts to delegate.
Three days later, with my regular work on track once
