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Welcome to Chapter 7 In Chapter 6 , the pressure mounted. With time running out and the McLeod brothers facing possible release, Detective Jean Lavallee made his move—separating Gerald and Jerome for one final round of questioning. What followed was less about answers and more about exposure. Gerald exploded first, trying to shield his brother with a hasty confession. But even that fell apart under the weight of logic and motive. Lavallee saw through the bravado—beneath it, a man both angry and afraid. Then came Jerome. Timid, uncertain, and visibly cracking under the scrutiny. His fidgeting hands and half-truths revealed more than his words ever could. His version of events mirrored Gerald’s a little too perfectly—until guilt pulled at the seams. By the end of the interviews, Lavallee hadn’t just heard their story. He had felt their panic. Beneath every denial and deflection, something real trembled: fear, grief, and the suffocating weight of family secrets. ...

Welcome to Chapter 6 Chapter 5 shifted the spotlight to the people and places quietly shaping the investigation—none more so than Mrs. O’Hara and the McLeod farm itself. Over a simple meal of Irish stew, Detective Jean Lavallee listened as Harris Bay’s most observant boarding house proprietor offered casual conversation laced with small-town insight. In a place like this, dinner talk could be as revealing as a witness statement—and Lavallee knew it. But it was the McLeod farm that spoke the loudest. In its decay, Lavallee saw a family legacy collapsing under years of conflict and silence. An empty drawer. A dragged line in the barn straw. And then—an unexpected visitor. George McLeod. Brother to the deceased, and caretaker of a farm steeped in tension and memory. George’s presence raised as many questions as it answered. Was he simply maintaining the property—or watching over something more? In this chapter, the silence deepens—but so does Lavallee’s resolve....

Welcome to Chapter 5 Chapter 4 opened the door to the investigation in earnest. Gerald and Jerome McLeod—two brothers with very different demeanors—sat across from their lawyer, Paul O’Grady, spinning a story that smelled of fabrication. The tension was palpable. Gerald remained cool and calculated, while Jerome unravelled with every passing question. Their version of events? That Ian McLeod had gone west for a mysterious girlfriend—leaving behind his car, his farm, and a rising storm of suspicion. Meanwhile, Detective Jean Lavallee returned to Harris Bay—a town he once fled, but now must confront again, both professionally and personally. As he stepped into the case, memories of his sister Patsy’s unsolved death reawakened long-buried pain, anchoring his determination to uncover the truth behind Ian McLeod’s murder. In this chapter, the investigation takes sharper focus. Lavallee begins peeling back the first layers of deception as he analyzes family motives, a missing rifle, a...