Chapter 26 Close Reading
I don’t respond to Sal right away. I sit with the message for a long, careful minute, and then I type back exactly what a grieving, trusting young woman might type… nothing that reveals how loudly the silence around his question rang out to me last night.
That’s kind of you. Can we do it tomorrow? ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Call
2. Chapter 2 The Room Behind the Room
3. Chapter 3 The Detective Who Doesn’t Ask Questions
4. Chapter 4 The Address
5. Chapter 5 The Wrong Grave
6. Chapter 6 Old Business
7. Chapter 7 The Family Tree, Annotated
8. Chapter 8 Uncle Sal
9. Chapter 9 For Now
10. Chapter 10 What the Numbers Don’t Say
11. Chapter 11 A Helpful Suggestion
12. Chapter 12 The Docks
13. Chapter 13 Colors
14. Chapter 14 Not a Liability
15. Chapter 15 What He Doesn’t Say
16. Chapter 16 Strangers at the Edge
17. Chapter 17 What’s Left in the Dark
18. Chapter 18 Before She Sees It
19. Chapter 19 Before His People Arrived
20. Chapter 20 Who’s Moving
21. Chapter 21 Attendance
22. Chapter 22 The Car at the Curb
23. Chapter 23 Grazed
24. Chapter 24 What Sal Doesn’t Ask
25. Chapter 25 The Company Name
26. Chapter 26 Close Reading
27. Chapter 27 What the Code Actually Says
28. Chapter 28 The Old Property
29. Chapter 29 Provenance
30. Chapter 30 The Kozlovsky Group
31. Chapter 31 What the Wounded Man Won’t Say
32. Chapter 32 Too Specific to Be Nothing
33. Chapter 33 What Nico Won’t Say Either
34. Chapter 34 What I Don’t Say
35. Chapter 35 After
36. Chapter 36 Old Friends
37. Chapter 37 Gone Quiet
38. Chapter 38 Loose Ends
39. Chapter 39 What Elena Doesn’t Say
40. Chapter 40 A Familiar Kind of Comfort
41. Chapter 41 The Deed and the Detail
42. Chapter 42 An Evening That Isn’t About Any of This
43. Chapter 43 What It Cost Him
44. Chapter 44 Off the Road
45. Chapter 45 Doesn’t Match
46. Chapter 46 What Elena Carries
47. Chapter 47 Same Hand, Different Victim
48. Chapter 48 What Ties Them Together
49. Chapter 49 Moved Up
50. Chapter 50 Confirmed, in Writing
51. Chapter 51 What’s Left When the Fear Passes
52. Chapter 52 Close Call
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