“She belongs at home,” Zane said.

His heavy voice was quieter than normal, without its usual edge.

He turned to me and took a shiny brass house key out of his vest pocket.

He pressed the key into my right palm and closed my fingers around it.

“I was wrong to change the deadbolt yesterday.

I was out of my mind with worry about the family.”

“You phoned the library director,” I said.