Major Hannah Nolan Comes Home to Chesapeake and Discovers Nineteen Thousand Dollars Gone
The envelopes were piled on top, their edges squared as though someone had measured them.
Derek took a step.
Bell’s hand went to his duty belt.
“Don’t,” Bell said.
Derek froze with one boot on the hall runner.
Patricia’s buttons clicked once more, one, two, three.
I kept my eyes on the shelf.
A spider had spun a web between the door frame and the lock.
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