He Was Sure the Cops Would Believe the Polished Son-in-Law Over a Terrified Old Woman. Then I Asked Them to Look at the Fireplace

Then I said the sentence I had been carrying since a parking lot forty minutes away.

Chapter 11 — Look at the Fireplace

“No, Ronan.

They won’t find a missing poker.”

He blinked.

“They won’t find a missing poker,” I said, “because there is no poker.