Anne Doss clenched her teeth, looked away. She muttered, “The dirty bastard.”

Tim said, “Yeah, we thought so, too.”

Tim Lane looked at Murphy and nodded, a tacit agreement that the woman was confessing to a crime she didn’t commit. She was surprised to find out JoJo was cheating on her, too.

Still, Murphy wanted nothing more than to arrest the woman and let the chips fall. They could not be faulted for arresting a person who freely and voluntarily confessed to murder. His smart...