Major Hannah Nolan Comes Home to Chesapeake and Discovers Nineteen Thousand Dollars Gone

Bell shut his notebook.

“I’ll have a patrol car swing by tonight,” he said.

I said, “I’d rather just leave the porch light on.”

Jenna said, “I’ll write it all down.

Everything Mama ever told me.” “Do that,” I said.

She walked over to her car and sat inside without starting it.

The windows stayed up, and her hands rested on the wheel.

Evelyn picked up the empty glasses.