“I think this can be restored,” she said, tears
cheap lv bags cracking her voice.
“Sure. Sure, that can be done,” Conklin said.
He showed Kelly the open safe in the closet, asked her if she knew what her parents had kept there.
“My mom had some antique pieces that my grandmother left her. I guess the insurance company will have a list.”
Jacobi asked, “Miss Malone. Anyone you
chanel bags outlet online can think of who might have had a grudge against your parents?”
“I haven’t lived here since I was eighteen,” she said. “My dad could throw his weight around at the dealership, but if there’d been any serious threats, my mom would’ve told me.
“Are you sure this wasn’t an accident?” she asked, turning pleading eyes on
cheap louis vuitton bags my partner.
Conklin said, “I’m sorry, Kelly. This was no accident.”
He put his arms around her and Kelly sobbed against his chest. Her pain was breaking my own heart. Still, I had to ask. “Kelly, who stands to benefit the most from your parents’ death?”
The young woman recoiled as if I’d struck her.
“Me,” she
chanel bags outlet online shouted. “I do. And my brother. You got us. We hired a hit man to kill our parents and torch the house so that we could inherit our parents’ money.”
I said, “Kelly, I’m sorry. I wasn’t implying that you had anything to do with this.” But she talked only to Conklin after that.
As I stood
cheap louis vuitton bags downstairs with Jacobi, I overheard Rich tell Kelly about the note in Latin written on the flyleaf of a book.
“Latin? I don’t know anything about that. If Mom or Dad wrote anything in Latin, it would have been the first and only time,” said Kelly Malone.
Chapter 27
HAWK HAD TRAPPED the roach under an eight-ounce drinking
cheap chanel bags glass upended on top of the worktable he used as a desk in his room at home. The roach was a Blatta orientalis, the oriental cockroach, about an inch long and shiny black, commonly found in all the swank houses of Palo Alto.
