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  1. Cover
  2. FAYE KELLERMAN
  3. Dedication
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  42. Acknowledgments
  43. About the Author
  44. Also by Faye Kellerman
  45. About the Publisher

“That’s it!” Wanda looked up with triumphant glee on her face. “Remember the Preservers of Ethnic Integrity? Darrell Holt and Erin Kershan?”

“Yeah, yeah!” Webster said. “The flyers they were printin’ up!”

“Tarpin’s name was on it!” Martinez said. “He was the English-only guy.”

“This is sounding very familiar,” Wanda remarked.

Decker raised his eyebrows. “The flyer should be in the original case file. I’ll look at them later.”

Wanda said, “At the time we didn’t have anything to connect the Preservers of Ethnic Integrity to Golding and the temple vandalism. I don’t know if Tarpin and Golding knew each other before this tragedy, but it would be interesting to find out.”

“Whatever happened to that other racist kid? The hacker.” Decker snapped his fingers. “Ricky Moke. Or whatever his name really is. Wasn’t he also a supposed survivalist?”

“I think that’s how Darrell and Erin saw him,” Wanda said.

“Graduate of Mervin Baldwin’s program?” Martinez asked.

“Let’s check it out.” Decker paused. “In the immediate, I’d sure like to locate Baldwin’s wife. She’s not at her house or at the clinic, and that’s making me nervous. I gave the go-ahead for immediate entrance on the grounds of immediate danger to her welfare, but then we had to retreat from the premises. I’m trying to get a court-ordered search warrant, especially for Baldwin’s clinic. Tarpin suggested some kind of vendetta. Maybe something’ll pop up in his case files.”

Martinez said, “Aren’t his case files confidential?”

“Not if someone’s in imminent danger.” Decker paused. “A crazy patient coming back to get you. What’s the likelihood of that? Probably as likely as old criminals coming back to hunt us down.”

“It happens,” Martinez said.

“Not very often. Know what the most dangerous occupation for that kind of thing is? Law. People get real pissed at lawyers. Anyway, I don’t know for certain if Dee Baldwin is in imminent danger. As a matter of fact, she just might be the perp.” Decker described the scene inside the hut. “A wife finding her husband and a kid in that kind of pose, I could see her going into a rage.”

“I dunno, Loo,” Martinez said. “You think the camp shrink would have a homosexual affair with a minor with all these kids and Tarpin and his wife hanging around?”

Wanda said, “Maybe Dee paid him a surprise visit.”

“At three in the morning?”

“At three in the morning, it would really be a surprise visit,” Wanda said. “And that’s why she waited. She had suspicions. Wives know that kind of thing. She wanted to catch him when he least expected it.”