Chapter 21 Summary

The pace of the investigation picks up. Garry Steinberg has information on Lyle Abernathy, which is that he once had a job as an apprentice to a locksmith but was released because cash had gone missing from his job sites. This could easily put Lyle in a position to have gotten into the Fife's house after Bruno had been killed.

Next, Gwen calls to see if they can have lunch together. She wants to come clean about her affair, but then Kinsey realizes that it is only because her former lover is dead that she is willing to share this information. Kinsey suspects that something else is going on, so she is very evasive when Gwen asks how the investigation is going, and expresses her doubt that anything new could possibly turn up after eight years. Kinsey, acting on her hunch, double checks...