Rune put the book back on the shelf. She jotted Tucker's name next to Andy Llewellyn's.

“Shelly said what made her decide to do the film was that she had a fight with somebody she worked with. You know who that was?”

Nicole paused. “No.”

Rune had seen Nicole in Lusty Cousins. She was a bad actress then and she was a bad actress now.

“Come on, Nicole.”

“Well, don't make too much out of it —”

“I won't.”

“It's just, I don't want to get anybody in trouble.”

“Tell me. Who?”

“Guy who runs the company.”

“Lame Duck?” Rune asked.

“Yeah. Danny Traub. But him and Shelly fought all the time. They have since she's been working for them. A couple of years.”

“What do they fight about?”

“Everything. Danny's, like, your nightmare boss.”

Into the notebook. “Okay. Anybody else?”

“Nobody she worked with.”

“But maybe somebody she didn't?”

“Well, there's this guy... Tommy Savorne. He was her ex.”

“Husband?”

“Boyfriend. They lived together in California for a couple years.”

“He still lives there?”

“He does, yeah. Only he's been in town for the past couple weeks. But I know he didn't have anything to do with the bomb. He's the sweetest guy you'd ever want to meet. He looks kind of like John Denver.”

“What happened with them? Did they break up because of her business?”

“She didn't talk about Tommy much. He used to make porn. Did a ton of drugs too. Hey, who doesn't, right? But then he cleaned up his act. Got out of the business, dried out at some fancy clinic like Betty Ford, did the twelve steps or something. Then he started doing legit videos — exercise tapes, something like that. I think Shelly resented that he went legit. Kind of a slap at her. I think he kept needling her to leave the business, but she couldn't afford to. Finally she left him. I don't know why she wouldn't go back. He's cute. And he makes good money.”

“And they were fighting?”

“Oh, not recently. They didn't have much contact. But they used to fight a lot. I heard her on the phone sometimes. He kept wanting to get back together and she kept saving she couldn't. One of those conversations — ex-boyfriend thing. You know, you've had those a hundred times.”

Rune, whose romantic life had been nonexistent since Richard had left — and pretty damn bleak before him too — nodded with phony female conspiracy. “Hundreds, thousands.”

“But that was months ago,” Nicole added. “I'm sure he couldn't have hurt her. I see him from time to time. He's really sweet. And they were good friends. Seeing them together — there's no way he could look at Shelly and hurt a hair on her head.”

“Why don't you tell me where he's staying anyway.”