“Marge is picking us up at the airport, plus she knows the area very well.” Decker paused. “What’s bugging you, kid?”

McAdams was silent. Then he said, “If she’s driving, do I have to sit in the back?”

Decker regarded the young man. “Tyler, I don’t mind stretching out in the back. It’s just that half the time you zone out and wind up playing with your phone instead of talking. I understand. Long car rides can be boring. But you can sit up front with Marge. I’m fine with it.”

“I’m being a brat.” McAdams had turned sour. “I just hate to be marginalized. My father did that to me all the time.”

“I’m not your dad, I’m your partner. Your current partner. Marge is a fabulous person and a great woman to bounce ideas off of, but she’s no longer my partner. It’s typical of her to offer to drive us around. I don’t care where I sit. Now, where are we on the autopsy?”

“Pauline had multiple stab wounds, but not one was, by itself, lethal. She probably bled out. The biggest wound was in the leg. It narrowly missed the femoral artery.” McAdams thought a moment. “Odd place to stab someone. You’d have to be thrusting down or even kneeling.”

“If you were aiming at the chest and your victim stepped back, you could miss the chest and get the leg,” Decker said. “I probably know the answer to this, but have we gotten anything definite that puts Lanz, Schulung, and Kathrine Taylor in Germany?”

“No,” McAdams stated. “We’ve sent out bulletins to police departments in Düsseldorf. The Lanzes live just outside the city. It’s a wealthy area, lots of industrialists.”

“How big is Düsseldorf?”

“It’s a major city.” McAdams tapped on his phone. “Over six hundred thousand. It’s the state capital of the North Rhine–Westphalia area. Biggish Jewish population, by the way. Bet you could find a kosher restaurant.” Still tapping. “There’s a kosher market. And a Chabad.”

“When people land on Mars, they’ll find that Chabad had beaten them to it.” Decker paused. “I’m wondering if instead of poking around Germany, we’d be better off trying to put pressure on the Taylors. They’ve heard from their daughter at least once. I’m betting they’ve heard from her again.”

“They are not going to do anything to endanger their daughter’s life.”

Decker said, “Eventually the Taylors will want to see Kathrine. Now that we have a body, maybe they’ll open up. Because they’re going to worry about her. Kathrine might feel safe, but she may be slow to recognize danger. And with Bertram’s history of manslaughter charges, that danger may be a real factor.”

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