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"Good" hat Beauvoir said, but good was not what he felt "Anything in the case files?"

"No, nothing yet," she said, and hanging up, she went back to theht in front of her if only she could find it

Isabelle Lacoste had gone over and over the notes The interviews The evidence from both murders

Antoinette Lemaitre had been killed either by someone she’d invited into her home, or when she’d surprised an intruder It was someone who knew about Project Babylon, and knew Brian would be in Montréal Someone who knew that her uncle was Guillaume Couture and that Dr Couture had been Gerald Bull’s ner Perhaps even kneas the real architect of Project Babylon

Soht the plans were hidden in his ho for theun couldn’t be sold Not anymore But the plans could

Lacoste stopped herself

Sidetracked by the goddah

But still, she’d coone astray?

All right, she told herself Let’s set aside Antoinette’s o back to the first one Laurent’s death

She herself had been in the bistro when the boy had raced in with yet another ridiculous story, so clearly a product of his iination

Isabelle Lacoste tried to remember what he’d said and done

Laurent had run in and co to the rooun in the woods With a ed at Gamache’s arm to follow him

Instead, the Chief had driven him home In the car, Laurent had entertained hied monsters and alien invasions and whatever else his fertile iination produced

A day later, Laurent was dead