The Trial (2016)
“Rich said, “Sarah was twenty-five, took violin lessons at night, did paperwork for a dentist during the day. She had no boyfriend, no recent ex, and lived with two other young women and an African gray parrot. She had a thousand and twenty dollars in the bank and a fifty-dollar credit card balance for a green down jacket. No enemies, only friends, none known to have a motive for her killing.”
“Your thoughts?” Brady asked me.
“Maybe the King would like to brag.”
Brady gave me a rare ...grin. “Knock yourself out,” he said.
I took the stairs from our floor, four, to maximum security on seven. I checked in at the desk and was escorted to Sierra’s brightly lit, windowless cell.
I stood a good five feet from the bars of the King’s cage.
He looked like someone had roughed him up, and the orange jumpsuit did nothing for his coloring. He didn’t look like the king of anything.MoreLess
“Your thoughts?” Brady asked me.
“Maybe the King would like to brag.”
Brady gave me a rare ...grin. “Knock yourself out,” he said.
I took the stairs from our floor, four, to maximum security on seven. I checked in at the desk and was escorted to Sierra’s brightly lit, windowless cell.
I stood a good five feet from the bars of the King’s cage.
He looked like someone had roughed him up, and the orange jumpsuit did nothing for his coloring. He didn’t look like the king of anything.MoreLess
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