The story so far
Biography
He died attempting to confront the killer, which is the kind of ending that a town simultaneously honours and finds difficult to look at directly, because it raises uncomfortable questions about what might have been done differently and whether the answers matter when the outcome cannot be changed. His mother Alma Avertin still lives in Sandpoint, running Sandpoint Savories, and carries the loss of him in the particular private way of people who have decided that grief is their own business. His memory sits in the background of Sandpoint's civic life like a shadow that the town has learned to live alongside without ever quite moving past.
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