CHAPTER 9
LYLE ANSWERED ON the first ring, breathless. “Dan?”
“Either that, or someone’s stolen my phone. What’s the problem?”
“I just met with Skinner.”
And he was alive to tell the tale? That was a good start. “I can’t imagine that would have been much fun.”
“He’s going for the death penalty.”
I narrowly managed to stop my fist before it slammed into the back of the seat in front of me. That son of a b***h!
“How is this even a death penalty case?”
“Because of the forensics. He told me it was r**e as well.”
“Unless there’s a whole bunch of evidence I haven’t seen, he can’t prove that.”
“He says the signs of a struggle indicate it.”
“That’s tenuous.”
But Jay would run with it anyway, the bastard.
“It’s what he’s saying.”
I was so angry I risked exploding if I tried to speak,
