Everyone knows something. Nobody knows everything.
Cedar Hollow’s team is excellent. Their information isn’t in the same place.
Marcus knows Wilma’s been quiet this week. It’s in his notebook. Aisha heard about Otis’s fall from his neighbour. It’s in a voicemail. Tomás left a sticky note. It’s on Tomás’s monitor. Everyone knows something. Nobody knows everything.
Five things five people know. None of them in the same place.
A desk seen from above in cool daylight, with five things scattered across it at different angles and depths: a notebook reading that Wilma has been quiet all week, a voicemail from a neighbour about Mr. Reyes having a fall, a sticky note about Hae-won Suh’s daughter visiting, a late-night text asking whether Bernard is on anyone’s list, and a half-erased whiteboard noting that Aisha is out Friday and needs cover.