Chapter TwentyAfter the talk with Dufort, Molly was determined to make headway on her part of the investigation. So that afternoon while cleaning up the wreckage from the party the night before, she composed a persona for herself of a bumbling genealogical researcher, interested in the old names and families of the area. She figured that would be unthreatening as well as not require any special knowledge on her part. In her old life in America, Molly had been a fundraiser, quite used to approaching strangers, putting them at ease, and getting them to write checks before they knew what was happening.
Well, she hadn’t been very good at that last part. Or at least, she hadn’t enjoyed it very much. But this job, this investigation, was fundamentally different: a woman’s life was potentially a
