"Were you at Jake's house Monday night?" Detective Palmer asked.

How to answer that? I wasn't so sure answering truthfully would shed the best possible light on me. In this particular moment, good lighting meant everything. I decided on telling a related truth that skirted around his question.

"Travis Black had the idea to walk to the wildlife refuge and see the sunset over the duck pond that evening." Technically true, even though we hadn't actually done that. I felt Boxy's ...