It took Marco — the associate — eleven days to come back with what he'd found.
He came to the house in person, which Mia recognized as significant; Marco usually handled things over the phone unless the matter warranted face-to-face delivery.
"Elena Ferro," he said, settling into the chair in Dante's study with the specific economy of someone who'd organized his findings carefully. "Eighty-one years old. Lives in Tampa — has for the last fifteen years, moved there from New York after her husband passed. Before that, she lived in New York for almost fifty years, after emigrating from Sicily in 1962." He paused. "I found records that place her in the same village as your mother's family, around the same time. Birth records, school records — they would have been close in age. Three years ap
