Cut the Lock: A Lot List Mystery

She bought the contents of Unit 118 sight unseen. She is the only person alive who knows what used to be in it.At a storage lien auction you bid from the doorway. You do not go in, you do not open a box, and you buy a stranger's whole life for whatever cash you have in your coat.Corrie Teague buys abandoned units in a dead North Carolina mill town and resells what is inside them. She keeps a list in two columns: what a unit holds, and what a life like that one should hold and does not.Unit 118 is Vessie Pruitt's entire house, packed away the October everybody says she left for Florida. Corrie knows it on sight, because she was paid two hundred dollars to help load it.The furniture is all there. The lock is the wrong lock. And at the back, under a quilt, is a suitcase packed for a trip that never happened.A small-town mystery with a real job in it - no cop boyfriend, no dead phone, no midnight confrontation. Corrie solves it out of a written inventory the reader has been holding the whole time, and every clue is on the page before the answer is.First in the Lot List Mysteries.