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

And say nothing else until I get there.

I’m leaving this second.”

Chapter 3 — Why Two in the Morning

I stood alone in that empty lot for one more second after I hung up, and I made myself think instead of feel, because thinking was the only thing that was going to help her.

The first question was the loudest one.

Why had Ronan been at my mother’s house at two thirty in the morning at all?