The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

Author:Diane Chamberlain
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781250010728
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

26.

Riley

“There were definitely two sets of footprints in the area the night Lisa supposedly killed herself,” Danny said the moment I walked into his trailer. He sat barefoot on his bed, his back against the wall and his computer on his lap.

“How do you know?” I sat down on the bench seat by the table.

He lit a cigarette and inhaled, his gaze never leaving my face. “I hacked into their data system.”

“Whose data system?” I asked, perplexed. “The Kyles’?”

“The state police of ol’ Virginny.” He smiled. “They need much better security.”

“Danny! Tell me you’re kidding. How did you do that?”

“Do you literally want me to tell you how or would you rather just know what I found out?”

“Can they catch you?” That thought wiped all others from my mind. The last thing Danny needed was time in prison.

He shook his head. “Very doubtful. I’m sure no one up there is looking at records from 1990.”

“They were using computers back then?”

He nodded. “At least partly. I got the feeling they were just starting to digitize. I’m sure they had more on the case than I could get my hands on.”

“You’re amazing.” I laughed. I couldn’t help it; I felt proud of his skill, even if he’d used it for something illegal. “What did you find out?”

He took a pull on his cigarette. “It snowed pretty heavily that night,” he said through a stream of smoke, “and that apparently screwed up the investigation. But there were definitely signs of two people being there. Here’s the weird thing, though.” He moved his computer from his lap to the bed and leaned forward, his elbows resting on his knees. “That second set of footprints? They withheld that tidbit from the media. There’s no way Tom Kyle could have read about them anywhere.”

“How could he know, then?”

“That’s a really good question, isn’t it?” He blew a smoke ring toward the ceiling. “They’re sure the second set of prints was from a man’s boots, but—”

“Matty,” I wondered out loud. “Remember I told you about him? They were really close friends, and we have pictures of—”

“Matthew Harrison,” Danny said. “Assuming it’s the same guy as the one mentioned in the police report, that’s his full name. They questioned him because he was there the night she killed her teacher, so—”

“He was?”

“Yes, but they don’t think he had anything to do with it. He didn’t get there till after the guy was shot. But since he was already on their radar, they questioned him about the suicide. Turned out he was out of town the night she supposedly killed herself.”

“Oh, my God!” I said, excited now. “Supposedly? Did the police think she—”

“Don’t get your hopes up,” he said. “Most likely, she did it, but—and don’t freak out about this—one of the theories they were looking at was that the second set of prints might have belonged to someone who killed her and made it look like suicide.”

“But she left a note, remember?”

“Could have been faked. And the other

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