I sorted through the last of the reservations and sighed as I stepped back from the sidebar in the foyer, rubbing my tired eyes and wondering how it had been a week already since Carter Melnick was arrested for the murder of Skip Anderson.

He was out of the hospital, awaiting arraignment, according to Crew. They'd intervened in time to save him from an overdose, so at least I didn't have his death on my hands. But the remnants of his attack would linger for months, I ...