The letter from Dr. Luís Pereira arrived in November, forwarded through Dra. Tavares with a covering note that said only: this came to my office addressed to you. I have not opened it. Call me after you read it.
Camila read it on a Friday afternoon while Daniel was at school and Leonardo was in a meeting she'd known about since Monday and couldn't interrupt. She'd been at the kitchen table with the nursing anatomy module she was supposed to be reading, and when the envelope came she'd set it beside the textbook and looked at it for several minutes before opening it.
Dr. Pereira had been struck off. She knew that. He'd lost his medical registration two years after the original fraud came to light, following an investigation by the medical council that had been, Paulo told her at the time,
