Richard Cole.

He had not killed Marcus Vance and framed Elena in a panic, or a rage, or a moment of opportunism.

He had done it as an investment.

He had traded two lives, a man’s and a woman’s, for money and for the control of a child, and he had very nearly gotten away with all of it.

Chapter 21 — A Weapon in His Hands

The prosecutor slumped back into his chair as though the strength had gone out of his body, staring at the frozen image on the laptop with an expression of absolute, horrified disbelief.