Detective Sarah Mitchell sat behind a small wooden desk with a thick blue folder open in front of her.

She was forty-one, with sharp blue eyes and her dark hair pulled back in a tight bun.

“Mrs.

Bennett, I’m Detective Mitchell with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department,” she said in a clear, no-nonsense voice.

“The pediatric social worker called our office half an hour ago.”

“I figured they would,” I said, sitting down in the chair across from her desk.

“I’ve got the initial report from the ambulance crew that responded,” Detective Mitchell said, turning a handwritten page in the folder.