The Reporter by Kelly Lange

Author:Kelly Lange
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9780446568524
Publisher: Warner
Published: 2002-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Debra Angelo watched the morning news with a mixture of fascination, horror, and relief—fascination that frail, unbalanced Meg Davis might actually be a vicious killer, horror at the realization that all the time the woman had spent lurking near her house, Debra’s own family could have been targets, and relief that this high-profile arrest should take the heat off her.

And Maxi could have been killed! She’d been trying to get Maxi on the phone since she heard the news, but had only reached her answering machine.

Her lawyer, Marvin Samuels, had phoned earlier this morning. He and Debra were due at sheriff’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles at ten, but as soon as he’d learned about Meg Davis’s arrest, Samuels called Mike Cabello to challenge the detective’s reasons for questioning his client. He was told they would table the session, for now. When he was notified yesterday that they wanted Debra for questioning, he’d asked why they were calling his client in on the Carlotta Ricco murder. He reminded Cabello that Sheriff’s Homicide had managed to come up with nothing on Debra Angelo in the Jack Nathanson case, and that the county was courting a wrongful-arrest suit as it was, not to mention civil charges for destroying her livelihood. Cabello told him that whoever killed Carlotta Ricco had sailed right through the locked front door, so they would be talking to everyone who had keys to the Nathanson house, including cleaning help, gardeners, and other service people. Debra had a key, and she knew the Nathansons’ alarm code. She said it was in case she ever arrived there to drop Gia off before anyone in the household got home—rather than keep her daughter waiting outside on the doorstep, she could take her inside and sit with her.

Debra had told Samuels that the Nathansons’ key usually hung on a hook in her kitchen, near the garage door. When Bessie would drive Gia to her father’s house, she, too, always took that key with her. And, in fact, Jack had had a key and knew the alarm code to her house, too, for the same reason.

She jumped when the phone rang. It was Mrs. Daugherty, the principal at Gia’s school, sounding even more rigid than usual. It was necessary that she come to the school immediately and take Gia home, the woman told Debra in icy tones. Westview could no longer accommodate her daughter.

“Please, Mrs. Daugherty,” Debra tried, “this is the worst possible time for Gia to have more changes in her life. Tell me what happened, and I promise I’ll see that she does better.”

“It’s too late,” the woman responded. “Please come in immediately and pick up your child. She’s sitting outside my office, she’s crying, and she is not welcome back in class.”

Sensing she’d get nowhere on the phone, Debra told the woman that it was a forty-minute drive from her house to the school, and she would leave right away.

Now what? Debra thought, as she drove through Malibu canyon toward Westview Elementary.

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