Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan

Author:Lois Duncan [Duncan, Lois]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781453263587

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WHEN I GOT BACK to Albuquerque, I learned that Brett had been trying to reach me. Donnie, who had taken the message, had not written down the phone number, and since Brett had recently moved, I didn’t know how to get back to him.

Halfway through the week I came home from the store to be greeted by the shriek of the telephone and hurried to answer it.

The voice on the line wasn’t Brett’s, it was Kerry’s.

“I have the information about the wreck!” she announced triumphantly.

“How in the world—” I began.

“I pretended I was you!” she said. “I called Snappy’s national office and told the woman there that I was Lois Arquette and my husband was threatening to divorce me because he’d been going over last year’s credit-card statements and discovered I’d paid a bill without checking out the charges. He was accusing me of paying Snappy for the rental of a car in California at a time when nobody in our family had been out there.”

“The woman bought that?”

“She was lovely! It took her two days to locate the rental agreement, and she had to go digging through piles of back records to find it. I think we should send her flowers!”

“Was there a wreck?”

“Oh, yes, there was a wreck all right. When were Kait and Dung in the same town as R & J Car Leasing?”

“March 28, 1989.”

“That was the date of the wreck! And do you know why Mike couldn’t find the report on it? It’s because it was in Dung’s name—he’s the one who was driving!”

“They probably switched seats—” I began.

“No, they didn’t,” Kerry said. “Not only did they not switch seats, Kait wasn’t even in the car!”

“But Detective Gallegos told us—”

“What he said wasn’t true, Mother. Dung was alone in the rental car, and he rear-ended a personal vehicle driven by a man named Bob Manh Bui. There were two passengers in the second car, Kim Bui and Dung Bui. Police report #89-3303 was filed in Westminster by Officer J. M. Waller, badge #56313. Nobody reported any injuries at the scene.”

“Then the accident could have been legitimate?”

“That’s how it seemed on the surface, but not when I called the head of Snappy’s liability department. She told me that, after the fact, all three of the Buis made large personal injury claims for cervical strains and soft tissue injuries. They were covered one hundred percent by liability insurance from a high-risk company called Progressive Insurance.”

“How in the world did you get all this?” I asked incredulously.

“I just went with the flow,” Kerry said. “It was like that time when I took the kids to Wet and Wild and was going down the water slide with Brittany on my lap. We came zipping around a curve, and there in front of us was this big fat man who was stuck on the slide! I thought, Oh, no! Disaster time! But when we were right at the point of slamming into him, the water just swept us up and whooshed us around him.

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