“Des announced as they rocketed down Rimmon Road in Bella’s Jeep Wrangler, empty pet cages rattling around in back. It was dusk—dinner hour at the A & P Dumpsters on Amity Road. “I never killed someone before.”“You didn’t kill this one,” insisted Bella, her round double chin practically resting on top of the steering wheel as she drove. “It was his own doing.”“If I hadn’t gone to see that man, he’d still be alive today.”“You don’t know that, Desiree.”“Yes, I do,” Des said somberly. “I do know th...at.”“Sweetheart, you must not hold yourself responsible for what he did,” Bella said scoldingly. “You’ll make yourself meshugah.”“What’s meshugah mean?”“Crazy.”“I heard that.” Des nodded to herself. “Yes, indeed—in Dolby Sound.”She had spent an entire day and night in the Internal Affairs building next door to Major Crimes being grilled by a lieutenant from Hartford who she did not know. The man was not hostile. The man was not sympathetic.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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