she filed a shift with. Every phone number she called. Bring me the last six weeks of her life in Brooklyn before she left.”

“How fast?”

“Yesterday.”

Forty-eight hours later, Marco was back with a manila folder that felt heavier than any folder had a right to. He opened it standing.

“Clare Bennett, October 2019. Employed as a night shift waitress at Old Grove Coffee on Union Street, Brooklyn, three blocks northwest of Il Girasole. Ten PM to six AM rotation, four nights a week.”

He paused.

“She was seen