The investigator was already assigned.

A family that runs the day the state comes knocking does not look innocent to anyone; it looks exactly like what it is.

I pocketed the note and walked out.

Chapter 16 — Amanda Fenn

I did not drive to their apartment.

Every part of me wanted to — but I have enough sense to know that a suspended-looking teacher turning up at a frightened family’s door is precisely the picture the district was already trying to paint.