TWO NAMES ON THE LEASE

Synopsis

The name was Daniel Roarke, and Detective Margo Lindqvist made it the way you make anything out of nothing, patiently and slightly illegally, out of the paperwork of a man who had died in another state with no one to notice. Her informant has worn it for three years. He has a wife who took it, a daughter who was born into it, and a lease with the name on the line where a life is supposed to start. In March a man calling himself Daniel Roarke is found dead in Duluth. In April, another, in Sioux Falls. The broker who built the documents built them five times, and someone is counting down.

Who this is about

Three years ago Detective Margo Lindqvist built a man a name out of a dead stranger's paperwork, because the official program would not take him and she was not willing to bury him.

What goes wrong

The broker who made the documents sold the same identity four more times. Someone hunting the original owner has started at the top of that list and is working down it.

What's at stake

Her informant has a wife and a five-year-old who have never heard his real name. Warning him means telling them, and telling them ends the only life he has ever kept.

Why it keeps going

Each episode another Daniel Roarke turns up, each one a stranger she made possible, and Margo has to decide again how much of her own career the fourth one is worth.

Takeaway

A name given in kindness is still a name, and every name eventually gets found.

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