Poisoned Blue (Jamie Stanley Crime Scene Investigation Series Book 1) by Katie L Thompson

charity.”
    They both
frowned at Carl.
    “Why didn’t
you say that before?” Danny asked.
    “I didn’t
think to look. When a wife dies, you just assume the money will go to the
husband or kids.”
    “Is any of it
left to Greg and Zoe?” Jamie asked.
    “Not a penny.”
    “Did the
solicitors answer phone say when she’d be back from lunch?” Jamie asked,
“‘cause I think we’ve come to a complete stop.”
    Carl shook his
head. “I’ll take a look at the laptop we got from the colleague yesterday.”
     
    “This is interesting,” Carl
looked up from Sara’s laptop.
    Jamie and
Danny, who’d been doing very little all afternoon, looked up.
    “It looked as
though there was nothing on it other than a load of work stuff, but then I
found this.”
    “What is it?”
Danny peered over his shoulder.
    “It’s full of
information on her parents’ car crash. Newspaper clippings, interviews and what
looks like information obtained by the police who dealt with the case.”
    Jamie looked
over his other shoulder.
    “It seems as
though she was trying to solve the case by herself. Neil was wrong. She hadn’t
put the case to rest. She hadn’t refused to speak about so that she could
forget about it.” Carl looked first at Danny then at Jamie.
    “I still don’t
know what this means exactly,” Jamie admitted.
    “Maybe she got
too close to the truth so the culprit decided they had to kill her too. Unless,
of course, she was the intended victim all along.”
    “But that
brings us back round in a circle. Why kill her? What reason is there? From what
we can see, she was an ordinary woman who worked hard and had been married
about a year. Okay, she had a lot of secrets but … ” Jamie’s sentence trailed
off.
    “Maybe that’s
it,” Danny said.
    “What’s it?”
Carl asked.
    “Maybe the
motive wasn’t to get something but rather to get rid of something. Look at our
suspects again, who would benefit from her not being around?”
    “Greg would
get custody of the kid,” Carl said.
    “Polly would
get the promotion if she was allowed back to work,” Jamie suggested.
    “Neil and
Tanya would be able to be together without the complications of a divorce,”
Danny added.
    “Ironic.” Carl
leaned back in his chair.
    “What is?”
    “That someone
would murder a person to escape the complications of divorce.”
    “I guess it is
a bit,” Jamie said.
    “As for
Marion, the cleaner, all she’d succeed in doing is losing her job. I still
don’t think she’s involved in any of this.” Danny cracked open a can of Cola.
    “It’s got to
be Greg,” Jamie said. “He has the best motive, and he was in the car with the
parents so he could have caused that also.”
    “Agreed,”
Danny said.
    Carl nodded.
“I’ll bring him in.”
     
    “You’re accusing me of what?”
Greg said. Today he was wearing a black Guns and Roses t-shirt with torn
jeans.
    “We know that
you’ve been trying to gain custody of Zoe since Sara told you she wanted a
divorce. Everything you’ve tried has been unsuccessful. When Sara’s parents
died you tried to get her to pay you more money to help look after Zoe, but she
refused–”
    “Can I just
stop you a minute?” Greg interrupted. “First of all if I wanted to get custody
of Zoe in an unfair manner, I’d threaten to tell Neil, and Sara would
immediately give in and sign any form I told her to. Secondly, Zoe’s not that
far off sixteen, she’ll be free to do whatever she wants then. So you tell me,
what would be the point of risking spending the rest of my life in prison?”
    “How come you
were in the car when Sara’s parents were involved in the crash?” Carl tried to
get to him from a different angle.
    “Sara’s
parents were very close to Zoe even after the divorce. Zoe was in a performance
with her theatre group and the four of us were supposed to be driving down to
watch it but then Sara couldn’t get away.” They could see that Greg was
replaying the events in his