My name is Dunstan Vale. I am seventy-two.
And the woman who had been stealing from me for three years had just made the worst mistake of her life.
She stole from an auditor.
Chapter 1: Tinned Soup
Before I retired, I spent forty years as a corporate auditor.
Four decades of tracing money that had gone somewhere it should not have gone.
I was good at it. I have stood in rooms and told people exactly which account they’d stopped looking at.
Ten years ago my wife, Marianne, passed away after a long illness that took most of what we had.
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