6 Kira sat in the passenger seat of Trevor’s car, giving him directions to the house where Clarissa had lived with her parents while he drove. It was the first time they had been alone together since the Traversa case. All their other run-ins had occurred in her apartment, which Rob never left. The silence between the two of them was strained and awkward in the gaps between Kira’s instructions. Trevor was hardly someone Kira would have considered as a friend. If not for his sister’s disappearance a few months ago, she could have gone the rest of her life without speaking to him. But that case, and his insistence on becoming her self-appointed sidekick had changed all that—although their only bonding had taken place over missing people and dead bodies, which meant their repertoire for sma

