Blue Bottle From a Small Pharmacy Prompts a Search for Answers

with his usual quick summary. He tapped the screen with a blunt thumb, forcing a local news alert to expand across the glass.

The headline was brief, three lines of text from the county sheriff’s department regarding an emergency medical dispatch on Elm Street.

“That is Gail’s block,” I said, my voice dropping.

“They had two ambulances there at three continue reading …