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Isabelle Lacoste shook her head "No luck tracing that review It was so long ago now,to the archives at La Presse We’ll have to go through the microfiche one at a time"

"Bon" Inspector Beauvoir nodded his approval

Lacoste tore her warm and flaky croissant in half "I looked into Lillian Dyson’s sponsor, as you asked, Chief," she said, then took a bite of her croissant before putting it down and picking up the dossier "Suzanne Coates, age sixty-two She’s a waitress over at Nick’s on Greene Avenue Do you know it?"

Beauvoir shook his head, but Gamache nodded "A Westmount institution"

"As is Suzanne, apparently I called thishere Spoke to one of the other waitresses A Lorraine She confirot a little cagey when I asked what her hours were Finally this Lorraine admitted they all cover for each other when they pick up extra cash working private parties Suzanne’s supposed to be on the lunch shift, but wasn’t in Saturday She worked yesterday, though, as usual Her shift starts at eleven"

"By ‘working private parties,’ that doesn’t mean--?" asked Beauvoir

"Prostitution?" asked Lacoste "The woo Two arrests for prostitution and one for break and enter This was back in the early eighties She was also charged with theft"

Both Ga ti way from those crimes to murder

"I also found her tax information Her declared income last year enty-three thousand dollars But she’s heavily in debt Credit card She has three of them, all maxed out She seeoal Likecreditors, but it’s all about to co down"

"Does she realize it?" Gamache asked

"Hard not to, unless she’s completely delusional"

"You haven’t met her," said Beauvoir "Delusional is one of her better qualities"