whose are they?”
Kellan hesitated.
“They belong to Amos.”
I did not recognise the name.
“He was a detective,” Kellan continued. “He worked the original case with your father.”
My father’s former partner.
Kellan sat across from me and lowered his voice.
“Your father suspected Amos before he died, but he never found enough evidence to arrest him.”
“Why would Amos send flowers to me?”
“We don’t believe they were intended as a threat against you.”
“Then what were they?”
“Bait.”
Kellan explained that Daniel had somehow obtained my father’s
