“Do I get to play policeman again?”
“Yes, please.”
“Okay, who had a motive?”
“I did, and so did Lauren.”
“Do you want to answer the next question, or do you want a lawyer?”
“Ask.”
“Did you kill Bruno?”
“No,” she said.
“That leaves Lauren. Anything else I can do to help?”
“Lauren didn’t kill him; she’s living with Jack, and she would have to have left in the middle of the night and come back without waking him. Anyway, she didn’t do it. I know that.”
“Can you prove she didn’t do it?”
“If I had to. Just take my word for it.”
“Okay, Lauren is eliminated as a suspect on your personal say-so. Who else we got?”
“Nobody,” Holly said. “At least, nobody who makes any sense as a suspect.”
“Who else had anything to do with declaring Bruno a suicide?”
“Hurd Wallace and Jimmy Weathers were investigators. The medical examiner and a forensics guy were there, too.”
“Any of them got a motive?”
“Not that I know of.”
“Any of them have anything to gain by Bruno’s death?”
“No, I don’t…” she stopped.
“Think of somebody?”
“Well,” she said, “Jimmy got Bruno’s job.”
“I think this is where I’m supposed to say people have killed for less.”
“Yeah.”
“People have killed for less.”
“Good point, but I don’t make Jimmy for a murderer. Unless he had more motive than that.”
“Did he hate Bruno’s guts?”
“Any thinking person would.”
“Okay, that’s two motives.”
“But the time line doesn’t work. We talked about that before, right?”