CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Friday, 9 p.m. – 18 hours before the wedding
Rebecca met with the crime scene inspectors to discuss their findings. They had lifted a number of fingerprints from La Belle Maison’s kitchen and anteroom, but none matched any known criminals. The knife used to kill Taylor had plenty of smudged fingerprints that belonged to the kitchen staff, but no others. When CSI found a white cloth napkin under a table in the anteroom, they concluded the killer probably used it to pick up the murder weapon, thus smudging any fingerprints already on it.
They also believed the killer had to be a man, given the strength needed to penetrate Taylor Redmun-Blythe’s back. Some women might be able to do it, but looking over the female guests and bridesmaids, most appeared—especially to Rebecca
