This was a family annihilation, so the odds say we look at the family members. The ones who are still living first, then spread out to friends and str...ngers.”I rang up my geek. ‘Hello there, it’s Ed Rogers how is my credit?” I asked.“Not worth a damn, but what do you want,” he asked.I gave him the out line of the crime and the names. “Find me the surviving family, and the names of any friends mentioned by the local press. I would really like to have the name of the motel where the press stayed. Tell each other lies.”“What?” Rudy’s voice showed interest. “Lies?”“Sure,” said Dad. “Like around a campfire. Make up stories and try to sell them as being true. Go talk to the concierge. Maybe you can actually build a campfire to sit around.”“We have to get up early tomorrow anyway,” said Sam. Sam often blurted out things instead of thinking before she spoke.“Oh? Why?” asked our mother, who was putting on makeup in the bathroom.“We want to explore further up the beach,” I said, shooting a dark. The outworlders hesitated at first until I repeated myself in several languages. After that I got the impression that they suspected that something positive was up. That was good because I had an idea that I wanted to put forward to a couple of them.I started with the locals first. I walked over to where they were all sitting. They were huddled together on the side of the hill near the pass and they were all looking at me with trepidation in their eyes. I paused long enough to take a quick look. Her hair was swept back in pony tail which made her features stand out more clearly than it did when partially veiled by her tresses tumbling about her face as they did at work. Her ivory colored sweater clung invitingly to her breasts, and the neckline was just low enough to see the hint of the beginning of the breasts I had admired so often. I guess I must have looked like a teenager staring at his first girlfriend. Finally, Cindy gave a nervous little giggle.“Hey, Todd, going to stand.