Chapter 45

He reached for a red paper file on his desk and slid it in my direction. “The answer to your questions about Margo and Peter are inside. Take a look. In fact, take as much time as you need. The file’s contents are a copy. I made it just for you.”

I flipped open the file and fingered three black-and-white photographs of Margo and Peter. Each photograph showed them holding hands and kissing on some island along Florida’s Gulf Coast. And each had a date at the bottom right-hand corner with last year’s date.

Officer Bishop couldn’t hold his composure together. “They were lovers for three months. The affair took place on Sanibel Island near Naples. Peter ruined it by fucking a waiter half Margo’s age. That really pissed her off.”

“A waiter?” I asked, puzzled and thrilled all at the same time.