He got caught being greedy enough to write it all down.” I thought about that for a long time afterward — that the thing which had nearly destroyed my family had also, in the end, been the thing that hanged him.

He had documented his own crimes because he could not imagine a world in which the soft, grieving wife ever looked.

And then she looked.

Chapter 19 — The Necklace, Returned

Marguerite Pell called me four times that week.

I let all four go to voicemail, and I saved every one, because a woman explaining why the diamonds around her neck aren’t really evidence is a woman making my case for me.