Note: When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, I read that the two major American cities most vulnerable to flooding were New Orleans and my hometown of Sacramento, California. This past January, my wife and I happened to be enjoying a trip to New Orleans when heavy (but not catastrophic) flooding hit the Sacramento region. On our flight back to northern California, we looked down and saw a lot of rivers that had swollen over their banks and flooded various fields and housing tracts. That’s when the idea for this story came to me. My short crime fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and elsewhere. But this is the first piece of it I’ve written in years, and the length makes it a difficult fit for the few remaining magazines devoted to crime fiction. So I am offering it to you here. Enjoy!
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