EXCERPT

There's no point in explaining how or why I turned my late grandparents' fully-furnished home into a detective agency slash apartment. I just did. The first floor was the agency and the top floor was the apartment. I kept the basement as it was. Cake decorating supplies, tools, washer and dryer, all of it. I left the first floor as it was, too. The front door opened into the living room, which served as a space for me to confer with clients. It made people feel comfortable. And since most of my clients were people from the neighborhood, people from my past, people who had never hired a detective before, comfort was important.