Mathias

Veronica laughed, pleased herself. "Well, then, I'd just have to exonerate you," she said. "It's rarely the prime suspect anyway. That'd just be way too boring." Or maybe that was just life as she'd lived it, not how real mysteries, whatever those were, worked out at all. Second-guessing her skill as a detective wasn't in the plan, though. It was one thing she knew she could do.