He’d been wearing pale khakis at the time, and chanel bags outlet online he’d walked through a smoking house from the least burned rooms to the fire’s point of origin. He’d taught me a lot about crime detection at a fire scene that night, but I still didn’t know how he’d kept those khakis clean.
       “Hey, Lindsay,” Hanni said now. He was wearing a jacket and tie. There were comb marks in his cheap louis vuitton bags fine black hair and burn scars running from his right thumb up into his sleeve. “I’ve got a working ID on this couple.”
       My partner stood up from where he’d been crouched beside one of the victims.
       “Their names are Patty and Bert Malone,” Conklin said, something in his voice I couldn’t read. The corpses were so burned, they were chanel bags outlet online featureless. He saw the question in my eyes.
       “I’ve been in this house before,” Conklin told us. “I used to know these people.”
     Chapter 18
       I STARED AT MY PARTNER as embers fell from the ceiling of the den and the crackle of water against smoking wood competed with the radio static and the shouts of the firefighters.
       “I was close cheap louis vuitton bags to their daughter when I was in high school,” Conklin said. “Kelly Malone. Her parents were great to me.”
       “I’m so sorry, Rich.”
       “I haven’t seen them since Kelly went off to the University of Colorado,” Conklin said. “This is going to kill her.”
       I put my hand on his shoulder, knowing that we were going to treat the Malones’ cheap chanel bags deaths as homicides unless it was proven otherwise. Upstairs, the fire crew was doing mop-up and overhaul, dismantling the second-story ceiling, putting out hot spots under the eaves.
       “The security system was off,” Hanni said, joining us. “The fire department got the call from a neighbor. The fire started in this room,” he said, pointing out the furniture that had cheap louis vuitton handbags been burned low to the ground.
       He looked around the room at the mounds of plaster and debris. “After we sift through all this, I’ll let you know if I find anything, but I think you can pretty much kiss off any notes or fingerprints.”