“Jane Ryland. Of course. Your story in this morning’s paper was quite the tale,” Priscilla Brogan continued. “You must have reliable sources in the police department. Wonder who-?”
A little girl wearing a white dress and shiny black shoes ran past them, waving a branch of dark purple lilacs, squealing with laughter, as a little boy in a Boston Strong T-shirt chased after her.
“Mother,” Jake interrupted. “Jane and I are simply-”
“-colleagues,” Jane said. Even though she wasn’t quite sure what she would do, now that the Register apparently planned to hide the truth instead of tell it. Have a nice life? Did she have a different future to contemplate? “Jake and I are simply colleagues.”
The little girl’s laughter faded into the afternoon.
Evelyn Brogan, her face creased with a smile, still held her grandson’s arm. She briefly pointed the rubber tip of her silver walking stick at Jane.
“Oh, my silly dears,” Jake’s grandmother said. “Truth be told? I don’t think that’s the whole story.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate. She has won thirty-two Emmys and ten Edward R. Murrow Awards for her groundbreaking journalism. The bestselling author of four mystery novels as well as The Other Woman and The Wrong Girl, Ryan has won the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark awards. She is on the board of Mystery Writers of America and is past president of Sisters in Crime.
