“I saw the way he looked at you. Who am I to stand in the way of that?”

He took a last gulp of coffee and stood up to walk around the desk. “So, what’ve you got so far?”

“Father Douglas got me curious, so I looked up the passage he was talking about,” she said, scrolling her mouse over an online Bible concordance. “What I found was that Daniel, chapter 10, is just part of a bigger picture.”

She was about to explain when there was a knock at the door and Mann and Coletti walked in. When Coletti saw Lynch leaning over her shoulder to look at the screen, jealousy flashed across his face. Then Mary smiled at him, and his eyes lit up. Both Mann and Lynch saw the silent exchange and looked at each other knowingly.

“Have some coffee,” Lynch said, walking around the desk to greet them. “I’m sure you both can use it.”

Coletti poured two cups and handed one to Mann, who gratefully accepted. Both men seemed more at ease with each other. Lynch was happy to see that.

“So, what’ve we got on the killer?” the commissioner asked as he sat down.

“From what we’ve learned, there are at least two people involved, and maybe more,” Coletti said.

“Do we have descriptions?”

“That’s the thing,” Mann said between sips of coffee.

“The shooter at the church in Logan matched the description of the guy Sandy saw on Locust Street. He was caught on a store surveillance camera jumping into a stolen pickup driven by another man. We ran the pickup’s tag and found the owner.”

“And what did the owner say?” Lynch asked. “He saw the guys who stole his truck,” Coletti said. “There were two of them, both dressed in black, and one of them had a sawed-off shotgun.”

“Did he see their faces?” Lynch asked.

“No,” Mann said. “But one of them had a skull with angel wings tattooed on his hand. It said ‘Daniel 10’ underneath the skull.”

“That means he’s one of the other two,” Smithson mumbled.

All three men looked at her, waiting for her to explain.

“In Daniel 10 and 11, there’s only one angel, and he tells Daniel how the great war plays out. In Daniel 12, two more angels appear, and Daniel gets two time frames: twelve hundred ninety days between the sacrifice and the abomination, and thirteen hundred thirty-five days until the blessing.”

She looked up at the three of them. “If this killer’s operating according to Daniel’s time frames, we’d better figure out what they mean to him, because Father Douglas was right. Daniel is about a war between good and evil. The good guys win in the end, but the world has to die for it to happen.”