THE PERFECT LIE: USA Today bestselling suspense series (CSI Reilly Steel Book 8) by Casey Hill

Author:Casey Hill [Hill, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Missislippy: You’re probably right. But what if it comes out? If they asked for our phones they’re probably going through G’s too.

MuddyPaws: Well, fingers crossed they don’t find anything and he deleted everything since. Last thing I need…

24

The sun shone down on Lucy Gorman’s blond bob as she parked in the street and gazed up at the Hackett house again.

It looked so much alike the others in the estate, the kind of normal unassuming home where the visit of evil feels alien and misplaced.

Gary got out of the car and stood next to her.

They walked up to the house. Despite the horror that had happened inside only days earlier, the exterior looked prim and neat, and the lawn was only barely grown up over the line of the concrete pavement.

The interior of the house was still trashed from the party that had inevitably been Graham Hackett’s downfall. Empty beer cans were littered across the impeccable carpet and cups had tipped over on the tables. The refrigerator door was still hanging open, though someone had unplugged it, and the pile of vomit from the misfortunate first responder, still lay at the foot of the stairs.

Because of the astringent-related trace found on the victim’s body, they were here to assess all bathroom products the Hackett family used to ascertain if there was anything they could rule out. If not, then they had to conclude that the trace had come from the killer and was worth pursuing further.

The small bathroom downstairs truly was also in a wretched state – it appeared that the pile at the bottom of the stairs had come from the same person who hadn’t made it to the bathroom, because the remainder of the vomit was in the small, well decorated room.

The glass-fronted shower was elegant and the surround decorated with slate limestone up to the ceiling. A shining chrome shower-head arched from the wall at the height of the surround. The shower tray appeared to be clean, thankfully none of the partygoers had thought to take care of their business behind the sliding glass door.

Lucy carefully gathered samples from all the soaps and shampoos on the shelf inside, taking care to mark each with the specific brand and amount used.

Gary did the same in the bathroom upstairs, then poked through the bedrooms, though avoiding going into the victim’s room, where the blood was still spattered on the walls in the same pattern now preserved forever on iSpi. Once they released the house, a team of professional cleaners would show up to take care of the gore.

He started to descend the steps back down, but stopped when something caught his eye.

A picture was hanging on the wall next to the multitude of photos of Graham Hackett and his teammates, but this one was of him and his brother Simon, clad in full GAA team gear and grinning at the camera, a hurley resting against their thighs.

A few generic family pictures were in the hallway too, but the majority of the photos proudly focused on the Hackett boys sporting achievements.

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