Heartwood (2011)

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Genres: Fiction
Her blouse was peppered with perspiration.
“Pretty hot out there?” I said.
“I just spent two hours in the basement of the courthouse looking for the list of possessions on Bubba Grimes’s body. It was buried in a box on a shelf right next to the ceiling.”
She handed a manila folder to me with several departmental forms and penciled sheets from a yellow legal tablet inside. When he died Bubba Grimes’s pockets had contained car keys, a roll of breath mints, a wallet with fifty-three dollars inside
..., a comb, fingernail clippers, a wine cork, a Mexico peso, and three dimes.
“You checked the possessions bag?” I asked.
“Yeah, it’s just like it says there.” She held her eyes on my face.
The possessions sheet was marked up, words smeared or scratched out. I picked up the phone and punched in Marvin Pomroy’s number.
“I’m looking at some of the expert paperwork done by Hugo Roberts’s deputies. For some reason it was filed in the basement with documents that are a hundred years old,”
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