“Dennis claims he never contacted another employer about you.”

I looked at the photograph in the officer’s evidence sleeve.

“Then someone needs to ask the seventeen restaurants why they all changed their minds.”

PART 8

Three days later, Detective Ellis asked me to come back.

She had identified the initials in Elena’s notebook.

“Simon Vale,” she said.

“He has a financial interest in several waterfront facilities and has had business dealings with Moretti’s companies.”