The Book of Cold Cases

by Simone St. James

Claire Lake, Oregon

P.S. His name is Winston Purrchill. —

“It’s dangerous to ask old people about their childhoods, Shea. Our buried things have been buried for a long time.”

My sister was the executive assistant to a bank CEO, which was where she met her husband, one of the bank’s lawyers.

Aftershave, Beth thought, was one of the most important scents in any girl’s world.