Erik noticed that their walk had taken them to a street with a number of cheap hotels, the kind of place that would rent rooms by the hour to those who engaged in the most ancient trade of all: prostitution.

”Look, how about we check in some of these places, ask if any two women who looked like Weber and Lemaire took or tried to take a room?” he suggested to Hernandez, more to divert her thoughts from Hoffman than out of real hope to find the women. This was like looking for ...