JJ
The detective called the next morning.
I answered before the second ring.
“Please tell me you found something.”
The silence on the other end lasted just long enough for me to regret the sentence.
“We found things,” he said. “I’m not sure they’re the kind of things you mean.”
I sat down behind the reception desk. The shop wasn’t open yet. Stitch would arrive soon, and I could hear Nixx and Benny somewhere on the clubhouse side of the secured door.
“What was inside?”
“No person. Initial processing found no obvious blood and no obvious signs of a violent struggle inside the passenger compartment. That doesn’t establish what happened before the vehicle was left there.”
I stared at the dark computer screen.
I already knew Kinsley hadn’t been found inside the car. Hearing the detect
