I had, in a sense, been waiting for it for twelve years.

Chapter 13 — Four Million Dollars

But the fire, it turned out, was only the beginning of what my family had buried, and this is where my particular profession became relevant, because my parents had not merely covered up an accident.

They had committed a fraud.

The lake house had been insured for nearly four million dollars.

After the fire, my father’s company had received a very large settlement for valuable items supposedly destroyed inside it.

Except that several of those valuable items had not been inside the house when it burned.