Forty Thousand Dollars in Marked Bills Found in a Safe Deposit Box

but his fingers went still, clamping the coin against his palm.

I set my leather tote bag on the edge of his workbench, where a half-restored walnut clock case sat without its pendulum.

“Aris,” I said, “I found Raymond’s foreclosure notice in the handle of our father’s fishing rod.”

Aris slowly turned his head, his gray eyes steady continue reading …