At the storage facility, surveillance footage showed Vanessa entering the unit that morning and leaving with a rectangular object wrapped in a blanket. Thomas’s laptop was missing. Investigators documented the scene before allowing me to examine a wooden box containing a handwritten note from my husband. He warned that Heritage records concealed important information and instructed me to find his blue ledger.

I remembered Thomas keeping a blue leather notebook in his home office. Before we could leave, an anonymous message arrived with a recent photograph of my cottage. It warned that I should have accepted Richard’s cleaning job. Another threatened Daniel if Rebecca continued investigating. Then Daniel called to say Vanessa had visited his office and handed him an envelope. Inside was a photograph of Thomas with Richard and Thomas’s estranged brother, Peter. On the back, someone had written a disturbing question about the night Thomas died. My husband had suffered a heart attack four years earlier, but someone was now using that loss to frighten us.