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    â€œAly, I lied,” she said. “I did find something.” She showed Aly the diamond angel pin.
    â€œThat’s the HeavenSent logo!” Aly exclaimed.
    AJ nodded. “I know. That’s why I didn’t say anything in front of Faith and Hope. Just because there’s a clue doesn’t mean someone is guilty. That’s happened to us before. Faith and Hope were pretty upset. I didn’t want them to go calling up HeavenSent in the middle of the night.”
    â€œSmart thinking,” Aly said. “This is exciting. Why would HeavenSent want to steal the tape?”
    AJ yawned again. “Can we talk about this in the morning? I’m beat.”
    Jim shook his head. “You know, you girls might not talk to me about this whole detective thing you’re doing, but don’t think I haven’t noticed. You’re not going to leave the music business to become detectives are you? I mean, if you did, I’d still stick with you. I always thought I’d make a great private eye. But I think your fans would miss you.”
    Now Aly was yawning, too. “Jim, I didn’t hear a word you just said. My brain is mush.” She closed her eyes and leaned back in her seat.
    â€œFine. Be mysterious, then,” Jim said.

    Aly and AJ slept until ten o’clock Tuesday morning. They ate a late breakfast at Wally’s Waffles, a small restaurant down the street from their hotel. Aly was digging into a plate of strawberry waffles with whipped cream, while AJ had chosen the Southern pecan waffles with maple syrup.
    â€œThese are waffle-icious!” AJ joked.
    â€œDefinitely!” Aly agreed. “I’m feeling wide awake now, too. Although it’s probably the sugar rush.”
    AJ took her notebook from her bag. “Now that we’re fueled up, we should really talk about what happened last night,” she said. “I want to make some notes. Let’s talk about the facts. What do we know?”
    â€œWe know that the tape was stolen when Lionel was at dinner,” Aly said. “Faith told me that was between 7:30 and 8:30 at night.”
    AJ wrote that down. “Got it. We also know that the tape was locked in the control room, and whoever took it used a lock pick to open the door. That reminds me—we need to ask Jim if the studio engineers have a key to the studio. If they do, we can probably rule them out.”
    â€œRight,” Aly said. “Then there’s that pin you found.” She took a copy of Note magazine from her bag. Then she turned to a page that showed a picture of the angel-shaped pin next to a photo of HeavenSent.
    â€œI remembered reading about this,” Aly continued. “The diamond pins were a special gift from their record company after their last record went platinum. They were specially made—so the pin has to belong to either Sabrina, Holly, or Eve.”
    â€œRight,” AJ agreed. “We know the sisters were recording at the studio next door yesterday. So one of them would have had the opportunity to break into the studio. I just can’t figure out why they would want to steal Faith and Hope’s tape.”
    Aly turned to another page in Note , a full-page ad for the National Music Awards. “HeavenSent is performing live at the awards,” Aly said.
    â€œFaith said that the sisters in HeavenSent are very competitive,” AJ chimed in. “They knew Faith and Hope’s video was going to premiere at the awards. Maybe they didn’t want the country-singing sisters to steal their own sister limelight.”
    â€œThat makes total sense,” Aly agreed.
    â€œSo that means that HeavenSent had the opportunity, and a motive,” AJ added.
    â€œThey’re not the only ones with a motive,” Aly said. “Remember Faith and Hope’s old manager, Parker something? He was super angry about the video. I was thinking he might have stolen the video just to get revenge