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Savich asked, "Peter, you knew Tommy’s father? His ain It made him look common and mean "Of course I did Both of theot to say they always treated To on the Poto bonfires on the beach When Toht in To continued on as it always had--barbecues and parties, whatever his dad and aunt could coe in moms"
Savich said, "It sounds to me like you don’t think Mr Cronin ini’s cell buzzed a text e For a moment, it seemed he would answer, but he only touched the phone, then let his fingers drop away "Hoould I know? It eird, though, what happened A year later, Tommy’s dad dies in his kick-ass red Ferrari Who could see that co, like neither of Tommy’s parents had ever really been all that i out there, and Toot all into himself since he saw himself as the new boss man of the house Aunt Marian smiled behind her hand, let him strut around and act all serious about the electric bill"
Mr Biaggini looked both e Savich and Sherlock’s attention back to him "It was a dreadful time Barbara Cronin was a lovely woman, an excellent mother to Tommy and his sisters I was shocked and frankly surprised she would kill herself I knew of no reason for her to do such a thing"
"She was shacking up with the guy who re down farther in his chair "All the kids knew about it; we thought it was funny"
Sherlock said, "Did Tommy think it was funny?"
"No, he’d leave whenever anyone said anything" He said to his father, "Co Since all the kids knew it, surely you and Moini said, his body as stiff as his voice, "but if one has any sense and maturity at all, one discounts it I do not believe and never believed Tommy’s mother was unfaithful to his father What does any of this have to do with To his fingers again Anotherkeys Savich reached over, took the cell from his hand, and tossed it to Coop, who turned it off and slipped it into his pocket Peter Biaggini froze He started to say soht better of it
Savich knew Barbara Cronin wasn’t the point here, but her suicide bothered hie ered her suicide Do you re at the tiini shook his head "I was very busy with oing up throughout Maryland and Virginia My wife and I hadn’t seen the Cronins in soet all the rich old ladies ht, Dad?"
Savich was pleased when Mr Biaggini slowly rose to his feet, spread his hands on the tabletop, and leaned toward his son "You mock me for the fine house you’ve lived in all your life? You mock that your iven you the best education possible?"
But not a new car? Savich knew Peter drove a five-year-old Honda, which ini did have some limits, probably because of his son’s DUIs
Peter looked his father up and down "Yeah, thanks for the Cheerios, Dad But you didn’t give me my education I worked for it I would have been valedictorian at Coluh School if that jerk Noah Horton hadn’t kissed up to all his teachers And I could have gotten scholarships to college if you hadn’t coughed up the tuition for Magdalene I even earned that job with Caruthers and Milton on ed, looked at Sherlock, then back to his father "Have you ever thought you should have spenthair spray?"
Mr Biaggini had heard this before, too ht He stared at his son, his hands working, but he did nothing, said nothingup? A brief show of indignation, then nothing? Sherlock wanted to leap over the interview table and plant her fist in Peter Biaggini’s sneering lass shards, "Tell us, Peter, about how you and Stony Hart tried to anonymously upload that photo of Tommy’s dead body at the Lincoln Memorial on YouTube? That photo we tracked to Stony’s computer?"