Chapter 2 Summary

Santa Teresa is a town of beautiful architecture, flowering plants, and meandering streets. Even the homes of the "poor" are not very shabby. In the middle of the town is the Santa Teresa police station where Kinsey goes to meet with Detective Con Dolan, who was the investigator for Laurence Fife's death eight years ago. Con's appearance is deceiving; he appears to be a wino off the street, but is one of the sharpest cops that Kinsey knows. Very few people can out-think Con Dolan. Kinsey spars verbally with Con for a while before he calls for the Fife murder file for her to review. Once Kinsey gets into the file, she realizes why Con is so sure that Nikki is guilty. At first she thinks that two files had gotten mixed up, but as she reads and re-reads, she realizes that not...