Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

fee for expedited out-of-county retrievals, and my department budget is already frozen for the quarter.”

“How much is the fee?” I asked.

“Five hundred dollars,” Raymond said.

I drove down to Grand Avenue at two in the afternoon, the traffic moving in a slow, metallic crawl under the gray sky. The parking garage near the bank charged continue reading …