One Name Between Us

On Thursday morning, Nadia found Martin’s key exactly where he had left it on the workbench, below the shelf that held Mrs. Bell’s portrait. She moved it to the locked drawer with the stamp, then took it out again. A shop key had to be dealt with, not hidden away like a feeling. She wrote …

“We’re over,” Martin said, “but I need you beside me when the bank comes tomorrow.” Nadia Reyes refuses his new guarantee and the lie he wants her to tell. She also has to face the customers whose photographs he put on his list. At home, twelve-year-old Bea misses the man who was supposed to watch …