The Devil Never Begs Twice

Twelve years ago, the water was sent into the Salt Quarter. By morning, the city had decided whose fault it was.

Every November, when the names of the twenty-nine dead are read aloud, the crowd lowers its voice for one of them. Lev Rook, the engineer blamed for the flood that killed him. His daughter Isadora, a gifted document conservator, has spent a decade trying to clear his name.

Then a frightened witness brings her a strip of recorder paper that should not exist. It says the floodgate di...