His wife, Myra, the elusive Bristol Trucking bookkeeper was now high on Sandy’s suspicious list for no other reason other than she had run out when Sandy appeared and mentioned Cal Boyd. Did the husband know anything about what was going on with his wife? An expertly lettered sign on the small office building announced: Our Designs Combine Nature & Culture. Two men were inside busily working. A forty-something man was at a desk in the corner office busy talking on the phone and a younger man sat working at a large drafting table with a computer at hand. Sandy walked over to the younger, “Ryan Cramer?” The young man pointed a protractor at the man in the corner office. After talking another three minutes, the man hung up the phone and stepped to the office door to greet her. “May I help you?” He was all smiles. How should she start this conversation with him? She’d like to ask him what his wife was up to, but instead she said, “How’s the landscape design business these days?”
