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When Finn got back to Rollo’s guesthouse after the work party, an email from the private investigator waited for him.
I found a news article from Rhode Island that could be a good lead. Do you have the funds for a trip to the East Coast?
Finn scanned the article, which was very brief. A family by the name of Joao had been killed in a house fire exactly twenty-five years ago. They were an immigrant family from Portugal that lived in a rundown duplex that probably had expired fire extinguishers. A three-year-old child had been rescued from the scene. The photo accompanying the article showed a crying baby wrapped in a blanket, held in the arms of a firefighter in full bunker gear.
He stared at it, examining every detail, hoping it would jog his memory. Had that blanket belonged to him
