Detective Helen Woo listened intently to Makayla Summerlin. Every once in a while, she would pick up the pen and write a note on the summary. She was good at what she did because she listened to the people who came in. She also could tell a lot from their body language, a skill not many of her colleagues had developed.
At twenty-eight, she was one of the youngest members of the Hong Kong police force to make the rank of Detective. The only daughter of a district police administrator and British school teacher, she had excelled in all her classes. Her mother had been supportive of her decision to follow in her father’s footsteps, though she had felt her mother’s concern for her safety. Her father had been slightly less forgiving, drilling her over the dangers and finally taking her under h
