F. There’s gotta be a thousand books on that set.” “Probably more like three or four hundred, but I agree it’s a lot of books to look through.” Tiffany had dropped me at the sheriff’s office and I’d waited more than an hour for Mort to return. Jacob’s law library had given me an idea, and I was eager to share it with him. “My guys said they checked every one of them.” “They probably checked the spines looking for bullet holes,” I said. “Right! And there were none. So how could the bullet get in a book if it didn’t go through the spine?” “When Seth and I went to see Dr. Smith, the forensic pathologist, he said that Vera must have been pressed up against something for the exit wound to be shaped the way it was. I think she may have had her arms around a book. It could have been one of the law books from the shelves on the set.
