In fact it is to leave a trail — the purchase, the timestamp, the disabled setting, the second camera they did not know to look for.

My son and his wife had spent three weeks industriously building the case for their own prosecution, and presenting it, piece by piece, to a judge, in a room where the one person who could read it correctly sat quietly with her hands folded, waiting for them to finish.

Chapter 12 — The Masterpiece

Then Ainsley produced what he plainly considered his masterpiece.

“Nearly nine hundred thousand dollars left Mrs.

Pendleton’s investment account for an entity called the Northstar Shelter Trust.