Blue Jeans And a Badge (2005)
“A few feet away the hum of the printer sounded. She stretched her arms and her aching back.
By now she had read through quite a stack of newspaper articles concerning the all-American, up-and-coming middle-class Santander family, the murder of their oldest son, Peter, and subsequent disappearance and hunt for his wife, Maria, one of the heirs to multimillion dollar Hidalgo Industries, and their daughter, Constanza.
Luce’s head spun from information overload. She rose from her chair, retrieved the printed copy and stuck it in the manila folder she’d begged from the reference librarian an hour or so ago. Then she gathered up the rest of her things and slowly made her way toward the front door. She hadn’t realized how late it had gotten. It was nearly dusk.
And there was no sign of Philip.
She stepped outside and scanned the area. To one side of the entrance, in the lengthening shadows of a spreading oak, she spotted a low step in the sidewalk. She walked over and dropped down onto it.
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