Hush, Hush Rules and Order Quotes

This is pretty much all Detective Basso has to say when he comes to investigate the fire at the Greys' house. He asks a few half-hearted questions and then gives Nora and her mom the phone number to a good security system company. Really, detective? You weren't willing to believe Nora about the intruder earlier in the novel, but you are willing to buy the story that a psycho school psychologist ransacked a student's house looking for some unspecified item? He's making law enforcement in the book look kind of dense.