Summary

Chapter 1 opens with a list of bad things that happened to Satkunananthan (Satku) Sasmal while working the midnight shift “at his uncle’s Valero station “(3), including being robbed at gunpoint several times, but now Satku has been murdered. Michelle Wu and Niket Patel are on scene waiting for detectives to arrive. Michelle hears Andrea trying to calm her children down in their car. Andrea gets out of the car holding Sadie, who needs to use the restroom. Michelle tells Andrea she needs to leave and Andrea persists, taking in a good look at the crime scene. Andrea explains to Michelle all the things Andrea sees wrong with how the police have secured the crime scene. Andrea’s child wets herself, with the urine streaming onto the killer’s tire tracks.

In Chapter 2, Andrea drives her children home. Andrea thinks about how “she hate...