Sleeping Dogs
“I got Beth’s phone number from Billy and called her at home. He said she was working the noon-to-eight shift at the beauty salon.
She didn’t sound unduly happy to hear from me. But then she had no reason to. She was struggling with her feelings about her father—whom she probably loved about twenty percent less than she hated—and I was forcing her to walk into a past fraught with proof of his sins.
“You want something. I can tell.”
“I need your help, yes. I’ll pay you to help me.”
“I don’t want any money, Dev.”
“Well, I appreciate that,” I said. “Did you ever do any work on the computer for your father?”
“Sometimes. He couldn’t keep secretaries. He always put the moves on them and they quit.”
“I need to find his computer and his password.”
“You want his computer?”
“I need to find out who he was working with the last couple of months. That may give us our killer.”
“I guess I never thought of that.”
“I know you have mixed feelings about him, but I’m sure you want to find his killer, don’t you?”
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