On the way back, I sat in the second seat and talked to Dani about her sister. Rene had recommended an attorney who'd practiced law for ninety years, licensed to practice in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. A wolf, obviously, who had to retire every so often and open a practice in another state, with the help of the Feds. He had the reputation as a cutthroat. His current practice was in Massachusetts, and it had been sixty years since he'd been in Connecticut, so any lawyers he'd worked for or against there were now dead and buried.

The lawyer and the PI were meeting this week so all of...