Chapter 5

The eleven names sat across two printed pages on Melissa’s desk by nine the following morning, and she worked through them with Petra Hale’s own patient, methodical cross-referencing style in mind — a habit she understood, sitting with the list, she’d absorbed almost entirely by watching Siobhan’s investigation unfold the previous spring, the specific discipline of treating a long list of unremarkable names as a puzzle worth solving properly rather than a chore to be rushed through.