Page 28 of The Children of Eve (Charlie Parker #22)

CHAPTER XXVIII

Seeley sat at the bar of the Springwater Supper Club while the internet was undoubtedly useful, he preferred to let others utilize it at his behest. In his car, he removed the envelope concealed between pages six and seven. In addition to assorted documents unrelated to the immediate issue but still potentially informative, it contained photographs of a number of Maine properties captured by drone cameras by both day and night, a review of a new art exhibition in Portland, catalog images of the same, and a picture and biography of the artist, a young woman with what Seeley regarded as too many tattoos—that is, any at all. Seeley examined the catalog images before reading the review and deciding that the latter was unduly harsh.

He looked again at the picture of the artist. She had fierce, sad eyes. Seeley felt sorry for her. He wondered how much Riggins might have shared with her. However much it was, he hoped that should the time come, she wouldn’t require too much convincing to reveal it. He didn’t want to be forced to watch her die.