Womens Murder Club - 04- 4th of July by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson [Patterson, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-21T17:08:59.340000+00:00

My mind whirled for a moment as I grappled with a possible connection between homemade porn and the Randy Long variety. Had the cops seen the camera setup?

And if they had, so what?

There was nothing illegal about consenting adults at play.

I stepped inside the newly painted closet, batted the wire coat hangers aside, then grabbed them to stop their jangling.

That's when I saw another patch of Spackle visible under the fresh paint.

I prodded it with a finger and felt my heart start to hammer. There was another peephole at the back of the closet and it went right through the wall.

I took one of the hangers off the rod and straightened it into a long wire, which I inserted into the hole.

"Joe, could you go find where this comes out?"

The wire felt like a living thing as I waited for the tug that finally came from the other end. Joe returned seconds later. "It goes through to another bedroom. You should see this, Lindsay."

The room next door was still partly furnished, with a ruffled four-poster, matching vanity, and an ornate full-length mirror affixed to the wall. Joe pointed out the hole disguised as a floral detail in the mirror's carved wooden frame.

"Shit, Joe. This is their daughter's room. Were those bastards spying on Caitlin? Were they filming her?"

I stared out the car window as Joe drove us back to Cat's house. I couldn't stop thinking about that second peephole. What kind of people had the O'Malleys been? Why would they have trained a camera on that child?

Had it been some kind of nanny-cam in the past?

Or was it something far more sinister?

My mind did pretzel loops around that peephole as I tried on every possibility. But it all came back to one question: Did any of this tie in with the murders?

Chapter 76

IT WAS ONLY NOON when we got back to Cat's house. Joe and I went into my nieces' bedroom so that we could use their wall-size corkboard to plot out what we knew about the murders.

I found marking pens and construction paper, and pulled up two small red plastic stools to sit on.

"So what do we know?" Joe asked, tacking yellow paper across the board.

"Circumstantial evidence suggests three killers. The ME says it looks to him as though various knives and belts were used, backing up my theory that there were multiple perps, but there's really nothing else. Not a hair, not a fiber, not a print, not a speck of DNA. It's like working a case in the 1940s. CSU wouldn't help crack this one."

"What do you see as a pattern? Talk it out for me."

"It's not coming in clear," I said, moving my hands over a make-believe crystal ball. "Stark told me that the victims were all married. Then he says, 'That doesn't mean anything. Eighty percent of the population here is married.'"

Joe printed the victims' names on the sheets of paper.

"Keep going," he said.

"All of the couples had children except the Whittakers . The Whittakers made kiddie porn, and Caitlin O'Malley may have been a victim.

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