A woman is memorialized as dead, and three weeks later a river of money begins flowing, every single month, to a medical clinic in the city on the river whose name the money itself wears.

I closed the browser and cleared the cache and stood up, and my hands, which do not shake, were not quite steady.

Chapter 9 — A Quick Way to Lose Your License

Karina Andrews was already in the corner booth of the coffee shop on Perry Street when I slid in across from her, her silver pen balanced between her fingers over a yellow legal pad.

“You look pale, Clara,” she said.