The Woman Who Made the Devil Laugh

Nora Bennett walks into her boss’s office with a document that needs signing. Sal Verri is on his knees. Luca Moretti is holding a gun. Nora tells Philadelphia’s most feared shipping boss to sign first—and to spare the newly cleaned rug. Luca laughs for the first time since his wife Elise died nine years ago. Then a record of an anonymous grant appears on Nora’s desk. Elise’s housing trust paid the grant that once helped Nora care for her younger brother, Owen. Someone has added a message: **Ask him why he hired you.** As Nora follows the money, she finds a stolen $2.8 million, a building whose residents have been left out of a loan filing, and records that seem designed to put her under suspicion. Luca can open doors for her, but he cannot decide whom she should trust. To protect Owen and the families living in Elise’s apartments, Nora will have to follow the evidence into the company that pays her—and the past Luca has spent nine years avoiding.