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So I had to ask ivenin the dark?

Why couldn’t I just say yes?

“What did Cindy tell you?” I asked him

“Verbatiot a break in the Campion case and she’s on it Tell Her She wrecked our weekend, and I’ive ood one’ ”

I laughed at Joe’s imitation of Cindy, who is not only my friend, but also the top reporter on the Chronicle’s crime desk

“It’s either tell her everything,” I said, “or tell her nothing And for now, it’s nothing”

“So, fill me in, Blondie Since I’m wide-awake”

I took a deep breath and told Joe all about Junie Moon; how she’d denied everything for two hours before telling us to turn off the ca about her “date” with Michael and his apparent heart attack; and how instead of calling 911, Junie had sung Michael Campion a lullaby as his heart bucked to a halt and killed him

“Oh, for God’s sake”

I hungrily watched Joe ladle tortellini in brodo into a bowl forbowl for himself

“Where’s the body?” Joe askedbeside me

“That’s the sixty- to the reported size of the Campion fortune I told Joe the rest of it: Junie’s dazed speech about Michael Campion’s dismemberment, the subsequent run up the coast with her boyfriend, and the eventual body dump behind a fast food restaurant — somewhere

“You know, Conklin read Junie her rights e brought her in for questioning,” I mused “And it pissed me off

“Junie wasn’t in custody, and I was sure if she was Mirandized, she wouldn’t talk And frankly, I believed what she said at first, that everything she knew about Michael Caive her a pass — then Conklin pushed the right button and she spilled her guts It was a good thing that he’d read her her rights”

I shookabout it “Rich has such confidence for a young cop, not toto the subject “And it’s not just that he’s great-looking, it’s that he’s very respectful And he’s very s”