I became a forensic accountant myself, later, and I think of that morning as the reason.

Chapter 12 — Zero Questions After

There was one more thing the forensic teams recovered, and it was the thing that turned the case from a terrible one into an unspeakable one.

State specialists pulled deleted messages from Roland’s phone, and among them was an exchange about the car Nora and I were meant to drive to college in the fall.

I am not going to describe the method they discussed.