Chapter 120

Brody typed, Day Two: Mike goes back to club to look at surveillance tapes from the night of Jon’s murder. Jon was there alone but the bartender recognized two other men, who had been with him the first time. Mike has the police computer expert run the photos of the men that he got off the tape through a facial recognition program. One is Grant L. Newton. The other is Thomas Irwin, a known drug dealer. Mike visits Newton’s home and finds him dead. He sees a car leaving and gets a partial license number—A6. When he runs a check on Irwin he finds out his license plate also starts with A6. A visit to Irwin’s place of residence, a high-security condo complex, reveals he left before Grant’s murder and hadn’t returned afterward.

“That covers it, other than the fact Jon and I visited Grant’s house and office and didn’t find anything worthwhile,” Brody said. “We were at the house before he was killed.”