He had not suffered a cardiac arrest.

He had been drugged into a state that looked like death, and left in the cold to complete the illusion, and pronounced dead by a doctor who did not look closely because he did not want to.

The toxicology did not yet prove who had done it.

But it proved, beyond any doubt, that Mark’s death had been no accident of the heart.

It had been a crime, planned and executed, and my husband was its intended victim.