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“So there were five of you,” Gary asked for confirmation.

This time the pause was longer, and Gary’s arms prickled with gooseflesh.

Greg placed his cigar in a glass ashtray. “You know, this sounds as though I’m a suspect. I told the police all this when Scott died. Hell, I’m even on the video of the concert. You can see me in the audience.”

A line from Shakespeare came to mind. Greg wasdefinitelyprotesting too much.

Gary closed his notepad. “We’re just familiarizing ourselves with the details.”

Greg stood. “I’m sorry, but I don’t have any new information for you, either about Brad or Scott. Good luck with your investigations. Please let me know if you discover anything.”

Apparently they were done.

Dan rose to his feet. “We’ll be sure to do that.”

Greg pressed a button on the wall behind him, and a moment later, the maid reappeared. “Please show these gentlemen out,” Greg instructed her.

She nodded and gave them an expectant glance.

Interview terminated.

Gary followed the maid through the entrance hall, Dan at his side, and once they were outside, he frowned.

“I don’t need your gift to know we rattled him at the end there.”

Dan huffed. “He was rattled the moment he stepped into the hallway.” He came to a halt halfway along the path. “Something else too. He didn’t shake my hand, but he shook yours. Which made me think about the charity ball. We must’ve shaken a whole lot of hands that night, but there were a few who didn’t. I thought nothing of it at the time—not everyone likes to shake hands, right?—but looking back now….”

Gary nodded. “Now you know some of them could be suspects, and if they recognized you….”

“Exactly.” Dan glanced back at the house. “But I’ll tell you one thing for sure. The killerwasthere, andtheycertainly didn’t shake my hand.”

He followed Dan’s gaze. “Greg Collins has an alibi.”

“He says he does.”

Gary laughed. “Yup, you’re sounding more and more like a detective every day. So what would you like to do now?”

“Go back to the precinct and see if Greg was telling the truth. And if he was, then maybe we need to prove how it’s possible to be in two places at the same time.”

Gary unlocked the car. “You didn’t like him, did you?”

Dan grinned. “Damn. Am I that obvious?”

“A little? But that’s fine, because I didn’t like him either.”

Not shaking Dan’s hand?

That right there was a red flag.

Chapter Nine

GARY CLOSEDthe door of the office behind them.

“The names of the friends who went to the concert. You noticed, right?”

Dan sat at his desk and logged on to his laptop. “The fact that they’re all on the list Barry gave us? Oh yeah.”

“What are you doing?”