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going to think so. This is our only lead, only connection between the five murders except for the physical characteristics. We need to find out who this man is.”
    “Do you happen to have any idea as how we can do that?” I asked.
    “No. I was hoping you would,” she said to me and smiled.

Chapter 7
    Belinda ended up calling a contact she had at the main cellular phone company, and after much cajoling and the promise of a Victoria’s Secret gift certificate, her friend looked up the call logs for four out of the five victims. We were happy it was that many as there were several different cell providers who serviced the area and we could have only had one number with this company. We got extremely lucky.
    “She is sending the call logs to my email and then all we have to do is go through each one looking for similar numbers. If we can find the phone numbers the victims had in common the day they died, and then find out who owns those numbers, maybe we can find mystery man,” Belinda said.
    We had met in Belinda’s office, which was in downtown Cabo, so we could print off the call logs. Spreading them out on a big conference table we each took two logs and looked for the date of the day the respective victims died and used a highlighter to mark those specific numbers so they would be easier to compare. After completing that task I went back down the two lists looking for any common numbers with the plans to circle them. I had hoped to find one commonality, the mystery man, and was surprised when I found three numbers both victims had called or who had called them, the day they died.
    “How many numbers did you find?” I asked her pointing at the three I had found.
    “Two. What about you?”
    “Three. Don’t you find it odd?”
    “What?”
    “That they have so many numbers in common. I thought we would be lucky if we found one number in common.”
    “Yeah, kind of. Do we have any matching?”
    We looked and saw there were two numbers all four victims had in common.
    “Let’s call them and see who they belong too,” she said, grabbing the logs I had in my hand and picking up her cell phone. Dialing the first number and holding the phone to her ear while crossing the fingers on her other hand for good luck only a few seconds went by before she said, “I’m sorry I must have dialed the wrong number,” and hung up.
    I looked at her expectantly.
    “You can cross that one off the list. It was a stylist they must all have in common.”
    The same was true of the other numbers she called. A car service was the other all three had in common and a salon and the restaurant La Flora were the other two that some of the victims had in common.
    “Are there so few people in these industries that are good that all the stars use the same ones?” I asked.
    “It seems so. Not so surprising, but it didn’t give us any businessman connection. We’re missing something,” Belinda mused.

Chapter 8
    “Presley, hey Presley!”
    I looked toward the sound to see it was Denise and Regina. When they saw they had caught my attention they waved me over. I had just got back from downtown and was going to run up to my room and freshen up before meeting Cooper. He was going to be back from golf in about an hour and we had plans to take a shopping tour. I did want to ask them about the woman and kids they had been talking too earlier.
    “Hi, ladies, how’s it going?” I asked when I reached them.
    “We’re drinking mojitos. How do you think it’s going?” Regina laughed.
    “That means pretty well in my book,” I said smiling.
    “Let’s get you one,” Denise said swiveling in her seat and motioning to the waiter to bring another chair and cocktail. Within short order both wishes were fulfilled and I was sitting down to join them. We chit chatted for a few minutes and I enjoyed the first sips of my drink and decided there was no subtle way to ask so I might as well blurt it out.
    “Who was the Mexican family I saw you two