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“But I know I’ your question How did she sit still for it is what you want to know There are no signs of struggle—no skin under her fingernails, ligature ht” His fingers rested lightly on Lily’s pale skin “She was a beautiful woner”

“Beauty doesn’t ist”

Fong chuckled “No one is colder than you”

David erprints He stood with his back against the wall in the sa’shad earlier

“Any evidence of sexual assault?”

“None”

“What was the weapon?”

Fong scratched his head “Not a saw because there’s nothing on the bones or the surrounding tissue to suggest serration, and a knife wouldn’t have h the bones I think the amputation was done in one motion”

“What else?”

“As you know, she was killed soht here The blood that coated her body looked like a smooth layer, but on closer inspection I discovered that gests that someone came here with a container filled with her blood”

“You’re sure it was hers?”

“Why go looking for other blood when hers was available?” Fong asked “I wish it was applied by hand, but it was

n’t The blood was blotted on Maybe a sponge Anyway, I picked up particulate matter on her skin—ht abrasions and traces of what looks like the same material in her mouth I’ll analyze it later”

Lily had kept her roo and Hulan Lily had a Filofax, some loose papers, and a couple of notebooks in a neat stack A Mont Blanc pen rested just so to the right

“Although the roo continued “I found drops of blood from the door to here and traces in the bathroom, where someone washed his or her or their hands I also picked up a few drops in the hallway going to the left Nothing in the alleyways A bit of blood in the drain, a couple of drops in the hall, and nothing else The killers were clean”