CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVELindsey held one of Jamie Plum’s hands while Marvia Plum, seated just beyond him, held the other. Jamie’s dress-up outfit was a compromise between his grandmother’s choice of bow tie and blazer and his own preference of superhero tee shirt and baseball cap. Marvia had laid down a ruling, and Gloria and Jamie had acceded.
They had assembled at Marcus and Gloria Plum’s house—make that Gloria Plum’s house—on Bonita Street. Lindsey met Marvia on the sidewalk. Inside the house, Gloria was working on her makeup, a small radio playing at her elbow. They found Jamie lying face down on his grandfather’s bed. Marvia had told him of Marcus’s death, and had told Lindsey later that Jamie had cried, had said that he understood what had happened to his grandpa, had acted with remarkab
