Chapter 50Officer Keller is already in with Mayor Bahum when I enter the mayor’s outer office on the second floor. His bird-like secretary, Betty Flowers, looks up at me from her computer and motions me into his office with a skeletal hand. From behind thick bifocals and light blue eyes, she looks flabbergasted.
She tells me that the mayor’s door is closed, but gestures me inside anyway.
Mayor Bahum and Officer Keller are in a back-and-forth discussion when I join them. The weight of their voices is serious, judgmental, and carries through to the outer room where Ms. Flowers eavesdrops, I suspect, standing by the door, leaning an ear to our conversation.
As I enter an airy, bright alcove of the mayor’s office, which is filled with spider plants and potted geraniums adorning windowsills,
