Olivia is a photographer working at Rory and Lou's art gallery. While taking pictures at the party Clay and Quint throw to celebrate the adoption of their son, she captures what seems to be a murder in the building behind them.<br><br>Lou and Quint take it upon themselves to investigate -- unofficially at first -- with the help of Rory and Gideon Monahan. When they find out the presumed victim is alive and denying anything happened, they dig deeper. Things heat up as Rory goes undercover to try to learn the truth while the others delve into the backgrounds of the people involved and Olivia finds more photos relevant to the case.<br><br>Now all they have to do is find out what the photos really show, and if what looked like a murder may be even more than it seems.

It Takes a Photographer

“Hell, yes.” Rory got to his feet, pulling Lou up then into a tight embrace. “I don’t think I have to keep going after Beth. Not when we have what, I suspect, she was looking for. I wonder…”


“No wondering. No talking about the case. Not until tomorrow,” Lou ordered. He picked up the memory card, stuck it in his pocket, then they left.  7


After too little sleep, Lou arrived at the precinct first thing Saturday morning, even though he wasn’t due in until two. He wanted to let Harber know about the memory card Rory had found in Seaver’s apartment as soon as possible, before passing it on to the department’s experts to go over.


Harber was not happy when Lou told him about it. “With no search warrant…”


“Rory’s not a cop,” Lou pointed out. “And, so far, we have no reason to geta warrant.”


“If our people find anything useful on the card, we can’t use it, since there’s no chain of evidence to document where it was found.”


Chapter 19