Page 47 (1/2)

"And you had mud all over your shoes earlier today, before you ever caht, didn’t you?" Caleb countered

Jamison swore "I’m a hoet out of here now, before I arrest you"

Furious, Sarah spun around to leave the cemetery

Caleb followed her quickly

"Hey, Anderson!" Jamison called after them

In unison, Caleb and Sarah stopped and turned back They lare of the floodlights Everyone working the crime scene stopped aardly to watch

"Don’t even think about going anywhere," Jaain today She thinks she saw you on the street, right before she was attacked"

Caleb stepped forward angrily, but Sarah grabbed his arm to stop him "Tim, that’s impossible, and I told her so Caleb ith me We left the bar, walked back to "

"Are you sure he didn’t duck out in the ht, Sarah? While you were asleep, maybe?" Janantly

Caleb got hold of his temper at last "I know exactly where I was, lieutenant My conscience is completely clear--on every level Can you say the saether

It was growing late, so they considered and rejected the idea of stopping at Hunky Harry’s, and went straight to the house Caleb felt more tense than ever before in his life Sarah went upstairs to take a shower, and when she caer, furious that Ja to direct suspicion toward him

"Get the mud off--you’ll feel better," she told him

He nodded and headed up the stairs The water was stea hot, and as he stood beneath it, eventually soan to ease

When he went back downstairs, Sarah was busy in the kitchen

"Omelets," she said

"That sounds wonderful," he told her, then sat at the counter, grabbed a scratch pad and startedthey knew so far "Killed, that we know about--Frederick Russell, banker His wife claiot himself murdered, and that he would never have driven off a curve Jane Doe--we still don’t know her story Winona Hart, found this evening buried in unhallowed ground, near where a witch was hanged"

Sarah caet the past We know that a girl named Susan Madison was murdered--and that Nellie Brennan saw the corpse Also, I looked it up in the records today and found out that Nellie herself died fro after she saw the corpse At least one other girl’s corpse turned up, too--and don’t forget Eleanora And then there are the bones in my walls Maybe they’re connected somehow, too Plus there are several references to Martha Tyler’s book of spells Our killer has to be someone who knows all the stories--who’sto replicate history"

She hesitated, then asked, "What was going on tonight between you and Ja about mud?"

"When I went to see him at the station today, he had ht, outside the cemetery"

"Oh, my God, you can’t think that Tim Jamison…" Sarah’s voice trailed off, but her horror ritten all over her face

"He’s a local He knows the area, the tides, how to fool forensics--and all the stories And even so to talk," Caleb told her

"Plus he’s seeing Cary Hagan," Sarah said thoughtfully

"Either that--or he wants people to think he’s seeing her, setting up an alibi Better to be an adulterer than a murderer," Caleb said

"As soon as we’re done with dinner, I want to pay a visit to your friend Renee And then you and I are going bar-hopping"

Barry opened the door when they arrived at Renee’s It was as if he were her guard,sure that only the worthy were allowed to see the wizard

"Sarah," he said war to sound polite

"Hey, Barry," Caleb said smoothly

Sarah was ireeted Barry, knohat Renee had said

Withoutdeal of it, Caleb stepped past Barry and went over to Renee, as sitting up on the sofa and seeuardedly as he sat down across fro on at the cemetery?" Renee demanded, as Barry sat down beside her "And don’t tell us that you don’t know We saw the two of you in the background on the news report"

"They’ve found Winona Hart," Caleb said

"Dead?" Renee asked, wide-eyed