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"In host has never killed anyone"

"Kill someone? Ghosts don’t even--" But he cut hi even-keeled He was looking like a superior fool

"I’m sorry, Ja, really The kid was covered in blood John Alden has arrested hi! It’s too easy--way too easy--to take that line of defense You should step up to the plate quickly Please, Saive him some kid fresh out of school as his public defender Doesn’t this interest you?"

"It is quite a challenge," Jenna said

Sa cold," Ja at hi to do it"

"Oh? Out of the kindness of my heart?" Sam asked

"Maybe," she said "More likely, because it is such a challenge If you pull this off, you’ll be known not just as an incredible attorney, but as awith Jamie O’Neill and his niece had seemed to set him so off balance

Could he do it? Yes He didn’t need e? Maybe--and maybe it was more likely that the kid had done it

"I’ll let you know in the ," he said, and walked away from the table Then he headed back "Look, I don’t think you kno , the briefs…paperwork you can’t even begin to i this? When the police think that they have their man? Not to mention the fact that you don’t have a plausible alternate suspect In fact, none of us has a clue"

For a reed with hie his niece into this, as well But just as quickly as the glint appeared, it vanished Nohen she stared up at him, her eyes seemed as sharp as her tone "Two other people were murdered and no arrests werequietly assumed that Malachi Sed with those e hi evidence where Peter Andres and Earnest Covington are concerned So, in fact, you won’t be going against the police if you are to clai at those two incidents There are plenty of places to start, Mr Hall Who were the other victiht they have had? And what about the church Malachi Smith was involved with? It certainly had to be out of the ordinary"

"And you’re going to investigate all this?" he asked her

She smiled serenely "I do have friends, Mr Hall"

"Ah, yes, team members"

"I’ll reht to be almost ioing on in her mind, her voice remained so even, and she oad her on

"Funny--I thought the NYPD had so to do with that last one!"

"The point is, Mr Hall, no one is asking you to do all the work I’end and superstition, and the head of my team is one of the foremost behavioral scientists in the country We can help you"

"And the police are just going to let you snoop around?" he asked

"You, as the defense attorney, will deation--for the benefit of your client, of course," Jenna said i such a hot tension, or why his

Because he didn’t think that they could do it? As much as he didn’t want to think of the boy as a ical scenario

He looked back at Ja," he said, and strode out of the roo and hard after Sa Saht have nantly

"Soets the job done And so the Feds," she told him

"You can find the truth I know that you can find who did this--you always had the knack"