CHAPTER 14
ON MONDAY MORNING, the forensics report finally got uploaded to the police network, and Lyle got his hands on copies of the lab work. I strongly suspected Jay had engineered the weekend delay, just to give Lyle two fewer days to go over everything. He was considerate like that.
The mere thought of Skinner made me clench my teeth. How had I let myself get taken in by him? He’d seemed so charming when we first met, and it took me months to realise his outward respectability hid a pool of slime.
Mack and Bay were with me in the lab when details of the crime scene started to arrive. Mack could be overly sensitive at times, and I told her she didn’t need to look at the photos, but she still insisted on helping. I glanced over at the door. Yup, there was a trash can next to it, com
