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"Junior didn’t like me any more than I liked him He didn’t want me around until Barbara died Then he sed his bile, and when I offered he was glad to have me move in to take care of the kids"

Savich said, "Your sister, Barbara, coe? What was it, two and a half years ago?"

Marian raised a face fierce arrior rage "If it was suicide! The coroner called it that, and Barbara’s shrink agreed she was suicidal But what else would he say when they were feeding her so s, both JP and that damned shrink?"

Talk about a fountain of black suspicion--this woara Falls Sherlock said slowly, "You believe your brother-in-laas responsible for your sister’s death? He fed her drugs that drove her to kill herself?"

"I can’t prove it, but heher She didn’t have a lover in the wings, or any friends to speak to, because JP liked her under his thumb, the ultimate hausfrau But none of that is ione and buried But so is Tommy, isn’t he? He’s dead, too" She sla before it righted itself again "He enty years old! How can any of us live with that? How can his sisters not have night his dead face on YouTube? How can the Cronins survive this?"

Sherlock wondered if she wasn’t right Her last thought about the Cronins when she and Dillon had followed Agent Ted Atkinson out of their living roo keeping the Tommy’s killer What would happen to them once they did catch Tommy’s killer? They’d have no focus, no reason to continue

Savich said quietly, "We’d like to ask you a few questions about Toirlfriend, Melissa, was there anything else recently that caused you to worry about Ton he was in trouble?"

She shrugged "As I said, I barely saw him the last month he was alive Did his friends at school tell you so with his dor his rooe What can you tell us yourself about Tommy’s friends?"

She cocked her head at theht this was a domestic terrorist act co collapse and bla at all the possibilities," Sherlock said

"Toether since they were kids--I used to call them little jerk faces, even after Tommy turned twenty last October They’d codalene sometimes, try to kiss up to me or try to hit on Marla She’s seventeen, the older of Tommy’s two sisters, and a looker, like her mom Joanie is only fifteen, so she was safe froled a lot around therow out of it, like Too I on, but try to carry on an adult conversation with theini--now, he’s a piece of work Peter’s really seek bone in his body So"

"The Cronins felt he dominated Tommy," Sherlock said "What did you think?"

"Peter was soroup The one with soraces as well as brains, and they all seeirls toothe controls to waste ti hiry look--it was gone real fast Then he said his dad was dead I asked Tommy about Peter’s father, and he told me he wasn’t dead, he ran a beauty-supply company with franchise stores all over the country He said Peter didn’t like to talk about his father, that he was asha cos, he called hiuy, always doing stuff for the kids"

She went on to tell thehtful Tommy Cronin had been to her and his sisters, until Melissa Ivy had come into his life

"Do you knohat To banking and finance, like his father and grandfather, and he was a Deutsche Bank by the time he was thirty