Bonus for you, Karen pointed out, as a detective who has had an unusual number of law enforcement interactions with celebrities, I may remember some of them.

Youve got that over me. As you may have learned from the last case we worked on, Im not exactly a pop culture expert.

Ive got you covered, Karen said. I didnt want to say it earlier because it sounds like they made your life hell, but Im a regular reader of Blabber.

I wont hold it against you, Jessie promised.

They split up the cases alphabetically and dived in. The first thing Jessie checked was to see if Jasper Otis had been honest about Milly Estrada not personally representing him. At least based on the documents that she had available, he had been. Then she started to go through everything again, looking for the name Marla, on the off chance she was mentioned, but it was a needle in a haystack.

Do you have a digitized version of this stuff? she asked Ajax.

Not one that we can share, he answered. Separating out the confidential data from the public facing material is much harder on the computer. Thats why we gave you hard copies instead.

Jessie looked at her watch. Shed already spent fifteen minutes on this wild goose chase. She reminded herself of what Decker had said. He would follow up on the Marla interview with Detective Parker. In the meantime, she needed to stay focused on the case in front of her, on solving Milly Estradas murder.

She began working her way methodically through the files. It quickly became clear that, while none of Millys clients actually served prison time, a number of them were held in jail for long stretches before and during trials. One guya well-known rock star named Percy Avalonwas held in custody for nine months on charges that he held a model from one of his music videos against her will in a hotel bathroom.

When the case finally came to trial, a member of his entourage claimed that he had confined the woman without Percys knowledge. That guy was sentenced to fourteen months in prison. Percy, who was convicted of an accessory charge, got time served. Jessie marked him down as someone shed like to chat with, especially if she could confirm he was at the party.

In another instance, an actor named Rance Jensen got himself in some real trouble. The former star of a TV series called Batts Badge about a hard-driving sheriff in a corrupt small town, Jensen was charged with assault after he beat up a reporter who asked him about allegations that he was verbally abusive on the set.