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Schrock, huh? I know we agreed on this, but it still breaks my heart. I wish everything didn’t point to him.”
    â€œIt’s got to be him. Right?”
    â€œI’ve known Jacob a long time, Luke. He’s seemed to be a caring, likable sort. I wouldn’t have thought that young man was capable of killing another person.”
    â€œI think we are all capable, given the right circumstances.”
    â€œAnd you think he was motivated enough? Your reasons don’t seem quite strong enough for Jacob to commit murder.”
    Luke sighed. He’d been thinking the same thing. He knew Jacob had been angry with Perry for lying to his father, and for stealing from the family business. He also knew that Jacob had been very upset that Perry had still been hanging around the store after he’d been fired.
    Jacob seemed to distrust Perry enough to publicly shun him. But there was a big difference between not liking someone and wanting them dead.
    â€œThat’s why I need to go talk with him some more.” Leaning forward, he showed Mose the notes he’d made while conducting his interviews. “I want to go visit with Deborah Borntrager, too.”
    â€œI agree with you there. Both of them left soon after Perry’s body was discovered. Their trips seemed a little too coincidental to me.”
    Luke sighed in relief. Talking over the case was restoring his confidence. “I’m going to go talk with her tonight.”
    â€œSounds good. Listen, when you go visiting to the Schrocks, I think I should go with you. Aaron Schrock is a good man, but he has a tendency to guard Jacob like a mother bear.”
    â€œI was hoping you’d offer to come with me. I have no problem interrogating suspects, but everything’s changed now . . .”
    â€œBecause of your relationship with Frannie,” Mose said.
    â€œYeah.” Feeling a little sheepish, he said, “Mose, I can’t believe I was so full of myself when I first got here. I really thought you needed my help because you were inexperienced.”
    â€œIt is true we don’t get a lot of murders around here—”
    â€œBut that wasn’t it, was it? It’s because these people here, they grow on you, don’t they? You don’t want to expect the worst of them.”
    Mose shrugged. “I needed you here and you came, Luke. That’s all that matters to me. When do you want to visit tomorrow?”
    â€œIn the morning?” he suggested. “We might have a better chance of talking to him for a while in private before the store gets too busy.”
    â€œHe’s an adult, Luke. We can bring him here without his parents’ permission.”
    Mose was right. But Luke also had a lot of experience with scared kids in interrogation rooms. Sometimes the change in environment rattled them so much, getting a confession was near impossible. “I hear what you’re saying, but I don’t want to push hard. Not yet, anyway.”
    Mose scanned the report again, then for a moment seemed to scan Luke with the same intensity. “I’ll trust your judgment,” he said. “So, before you go find Deborah, want to go get something to eat?”
    â€œMaybe. Where are thinking?”
    Mose smiled slyly. “Mary King’s?”
    â€œDone,” he said, getting to his feet. Now that he was settling into the rhythm of the county, he was realizing two things. First, never to push hard when pushing gently would achieve the same results.
    And two? Never pass up a chance to eat at Mary’s.
    I ’m really glad you came with me, Lydia,” Walker said as he pulled into the parking lot of the community college he’d been attending. “I wanted you to see the campus.”
    Lydia looked at the gray office building with a wave of apprehension. She’d thought they were only stopping by the campus so he could get some forms from a secretary.
    But did he have another