Description
The books at Pines and Needles balance to the penny. Hazel Pike sees to that personally. So when a discrepancy surfaces in the community accounts — small at first, then less small — the question is not whether someone has been stealing. The question is how long they have been doing it, and how much goodwill they have accumulated as cover.
Roxie does not want to believe it. Neither does anyone else. That is, of course, exactly how friendly fraud works.
Kenzie had reservations about this particular resident from the beginning. She keeps a mental file on people who smile too readily. It is, she has found, a reliable system.
