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Chapters (59)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise for C J Skuse
  3. About the Author
  4. Booklist
  5. Note to Readers
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Barnes & Noble, Fifth Avenue, New York City
  9. Part 1: Europe
  10. Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Sluggers Bar, Fifth Avenue, New York City
  11. Monday, 31 December 2018 – at sea – one day to Madeira
  12. Tuesday, 1 January 2019 – Madeira
  13. Wednesday, 2 January – Cadiz
  14. Thursday, 3 January – Gibraltar
  15. Friday, 4 January – Cartagena
  16. Saturday, 5 January – Valencia
  17. Sunday, 6 January – Mallorca
  18. Monday, 7 January – Barcelona
  19. Tuesday, 8 January – Marseille
  20. Wednesday, 9 January – Genoa
  21. Thursday, 10 January – Florence
  22. Thursday evening, 10 January – at sea
  23. Friday, 11 January – Rome
  24. Part 2: Mexico
  25. Sunday, 13 January – Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez
  26. Sunday, 20 January – Hacienda Santuario
  27. Monday, 21 January – Hacienda Santuario
  28. Thursday, 24 January – Hacienda Santuario
  29. Saturday, 26 January – Hacienda Santuario
  30. Monday, 28 January – Hacienda Santuario
  31. Monday, 4 February – Hacienda Santuario
  32. Wednesday, 6 February – Hacienda Santuario
  33. Friday, 15 February – Hacienda Santuario – the day before surgery starts
  34. Monday, 18 February – Hacienda Santuario
  35. Wednesday, 6 March – Hacienda Santuario
  36. Friday, 15 March – Hacienda Santuario
  37. Friday, 29 March – Hacienda Santuario
  38. Friday, 5 April – Hacienda Santuario
  39. Wednesday, 17 April – Hacienda Santuario
  40. Monday, 29 April – Hacienda Santuario
  41. Sunday, 5 May – Hacienda Santuario
  42. Tuesday, 7 May – Playa Tortuga, Rocas Calientes
  43. Thursday, 9 May – Holiday Inn en el Agua, Rocas Calientes
  44. Friday, 10 May – the beachfront, Rocas Calientes
  45. Monday, 13 May – Hacienda Santuaria
  46. Monday, 3 June (early) – Hacienda Santuaria
  47. Thursday, 6 June – Hacienda Santuaria
  48. Friday, 14 June – Holiday Inn el Agua, Rocas Calientes
  49. Sunday, 16 June – Holiday Inn el Agua, Rocas Calientes
  50. Wednesday, 19 June – St Christopher’s Hospital, Colonia Centro, San Jose del Cabo
  51. Part 3: New York State
  52. Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Sluggers Bar, Fifth Avenue, New York City
  53. Thursday, 23 January – Greyhound bus from JFK Airport, Queens to Manchester, Vermont
  54. Thursday, 23 January – Burlington International Airport, Vermont
  55. Acknowledgements
  56. Extract
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  58. 2
  59. About the Publisher

‘Yeah, we were getting some lunch and there was this girl and an old woman sitting on a table near us. I recognised her from somewhere but I couldn’t think where and I realised I’d seen her on a newspaper that morning in our hotel.’

Majors was practically creaming his chinos. ‘And it was Rhiannon Lewis?’

‘Yeah, it so was! She was with this older woman, and they were chatting like and then Mum turns to me and she says, “Hey look, Kaish, she looks like that girl in all the papers.” So she recognised her as well.’

The microphone switches to Lindsay. ‘Yeah, she had sunglasses on and a baseball cap but I had this, like, sixth sense that she didn’t want people to recognise her. And the longer I looked at her, like the shape of her lips and her nose and that, I remembered her face from the papers. And I got her picture up on me phone and I said to Kaish, “Eh that’s her, that’s the one the police are looking for.”’

Guy brings the mic back to him where it’s most at home. ‘But this was a couple of days ago that you say you saw her, why have you waited until now to tell the police?’

Lindsay’s turn again. ‘We didn’t know what to do, like. Cos I’d read about what she’d done and I thought, Christ, I don’t wanna run into her but when you look at it, she’d only killed a bunch of paedos and dirty old men.’

A man in blue-tinted sunglasses and a white England shirt has been gurning behind the two women throughout the interview. He has a bottle of lager in his hand and starts doing an Irish jig. The camera pans round so he is out of shot.

‘You were happy that she’d got away with it?’ said an appalled Majors.

‘Yeah,’ said Kaisha. ‘We were. We thought, live and let live, like. But we heard what she’d done to that cabbie and the guy she’d had a baby with and we thought we better say something in case she’d killed the baby or something.’

‘Lindsay and Kaisha Debenham, thank you for joining me.’ Guy turned back to camera with a definite jump of eyebrows. ‘What we know for sure is that Lewis got on a cruise ship at Southampton Docks. The vehicle she’d stolen from Craig Wilkins’ parents was found a few streets away and it has been impounded by forensics…’

Cut to footage of Jim and Elaine’s Ford Focus being lifted onto a low loader. When the footage cuts back, the England Shirt gurner is back behind Majors, making a wanking gesture. A mate in a red England shirt and shorts is laughing beside him.