44 Richmond, VirginiaDuring the hour and a half drive Maggie tried to keep her mind focused on the case at hand. Takeout containers and killers were preferable to dredging up images of her childhood. But of course, it didn’t work.
Maggie and her mother had mourned the loss of Maggie’s father in very different ways. While Maggie scavenged for every memento and tried to surround herself with anything and everything to hold onto his presence, her mother wanted to remove herself from every last remnant of their previous life. Within months of her father’s funeral her mother had packed them up and moved halfway across the country from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Richmond, Virginia.
There was no explanation, and Maggie learned quickly that she wasn’t to expect one.
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