And he forgot the one cardinal rule of financial fraud.” She tapped the drive with one finger.

“Never leave a digital footprint inside the home of a woman who pays attention.” I felt something steady in me at that.

For two years this man had counted on my inattention — had built his whole plan on the assumption that I was too tired, too busy, too trusting, too much the good wife to ever look closely.

Eleanor Thorne looked at what my looking closely had produced, and she did not see a betrayed wife.

She saw a case that was going to win.