What Happened to the Bennetts

by Lisa Scottoline

“That’s grief, man. It gets in you. Your body carries it. It’s embedded.”

I dressed up in a suit and tie, eager to impress Kevin and Claire Romarin, who arrived in shorts and T-shirts. That was when I learned rich people never overdress. Only poor people do, when they want to look rich.

‘Whenever you’re taking a portrait of someone, you and your subject are in the present, but if you’re any good, you can see their past, and even their future.’ ”