Chapter 12
Private notes: Detective Callum Baxter (LAPD)
Interview with Tavish Advani. Full record in official file.
Good-looking, articulate, highly intelligent. Cooperated fully, admitted that Virna had given him a monetary “gift” in the range of a quarter of a million, and appeared embarrassed when I pointed out the client-adviser relationship he’d had with Virna.
“I screwed up,” he said. “We became friends, and when she offered, I was in a tight spot. She told me it was loose change to her. I still should have said no, but she was so insistent that I allow her to help me.”
Not sure what I think of him, but I can see why Virna was charmed.
He’s barely a couple of months past twenty-six, but he knows how to talk and say exactly the right words.
None of that bullshit young asshole stuff—man is smart and smooth.
Big difference between running a love con on a rich and vulnerable older lady and murder, though.
Perez says it’s a slippery slope. He’s definitely got Advani as his number one suspect.
Especially since unconfirmed rumor is that Advani was fired from his job a couple of days ago after Jason Musgrave kicked up a stink at Advani’s old investment firm. That job came with a serious six-figure pay packet—which leaves us the question of why Advani was in a tight spot in the first place.
Man should’ve been swimming in money.