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    On July 23, 2021, Hol­ly Gib­ney finds her­self grap­pling with the shock­ing news of inher­it­ing over six mil­lion dol­lars from her fam­i­ly, unable to rec­on­cile her new­found wealth with her cur­rent life as a pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor and the sim­ple needs she has. Despite the heat­wave, Hol­ly delays the com­fort of her car’s AC to focus on her case: locat­ing a miss­ing woman named Bon­nie Dahl. Hol­ly’s inves­ti­ga­tion leads her to George Raf­fer­ty, who along­side Mar­vin Brown, found Bon­nie’s bike aban­doned at a defunct auto shop. Both men pro­vide insights, but Hol­ly feels the key to the case might lie with Lakeisha Stone, a close friend of Bon­nie’s.

    Lakeisha is unavail­able, so Hol­ly speaks with Pen­ny Dahl, Bon­nie’s moth­er, deep­en­ing her under­stand­ing of Bon­nie’s recent activ­i­ties through dis­cus­sions about cred­it card trans­ac­tions and Bon­nie’s phone. Hol­ly reflects on her own fam­i­ly’s secrets, push­ing aside per­son­al woes to con­cen­trate on the case. She obtains cru­cial leads from library employ­ees, Edie Brook­ings and Mar­garet Bren­ner, who con­firm an ear­ring found near Bon­nie’s bike belongs to her, stress­ing Bon­nie’s intro­vert­ed nature and close friend­ship with Lakeisha.

    Through­out her inves­ti­ga­tion, Hol­ly con­tem­plates the impli­ca­tions of her inher­i­tance and the mys­ter­ies sur­round­ing her own fam­i­ly, along­side her com­mit­ment to her client. Con­tacts with old friends and pro­fes­sion­al affil­i­a­tions like Pete Hunt­ley offer a blend of sup­port and dis­trac­tion from her per­son­al sor­rows. Hol­ly’s day ends with unre­solved ques­tions about Bon­nie’s dis­ap­pear­ance, hints of ille­gal inves­tiga­tive meth­ods for finan­cial insight, and the loom­ing task of man­ag­ing her moth­er’s estate. Hol­ly’s deep sense of duty to her case and her clients, cou­pled with her inter­nal strug­gles, paints a vivid pic­ture of a com­plex char­ac­ter fac­ing life-chang­ing cir­cum­stances while ded­i­cat­ed to solv­ing a per­plex­ing mys­tery.

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