Chapters (59)
- Cover
- Praise for C J Skuse
- About the Author
- Booklist
- Note to Readers
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Barnes & Noble, Fifth Avenue, New York City
- Part 1: Europe
- Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Sluggers Bar, Fifth Avenue, New York City
- Monday, 31 December 2018 – at sea – one day to Madeira
- Tuesday, 1 January 2019 – Madeira
- Wednesday, 2 January – Cadiz
- Thursday, 3 January – Gibraltar
- Friday, 4 January – Cartagena
- Saturday, 5 January – Valencia
- Sunday, 6 January – Mallorca
- Monday, 7 January – Barcelona
- Tuesday, 8 January – Marseille
- Wednesday, 9 January – Genoa
- Thursday, 10 January – Florence
- Thursday evening, 10 January – at sea
- Friday, 11 January – Rome
- Part 2: Mexico
- Sunday, 13 January – Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez
- Sunday, 20 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Monday, 21 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Thursday, 24 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Saturday, 26 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Monday, 28 January – Hacienda Santuario
- Monday, 4 February – Hacienda Santuario
- Wednesday, 6 February – Hacienda Santuario
- Friday, 15 February – Hacienda Santuario – the day before surgery starts
- Monday, 18 February – Hacienda Santuario
- Wednesday, 6 March – Hacienda Santuario
- Friday, 15 March – Hacienda Santuario
- Friday, 29 March – Hacienda Santuario
- Friday, 5 April – Hacienda Santuario
- Wednesday, 17 April – Hacienda Santuario
- Monday, 29 April – Hacienda Santuario
- Sunday, 5 May – Hacienda Santuario
- Tuesday, 7 May – Playa Tortuga, Rocas Calientes
- Thursday, 9 May – Holiday Inn en el Agua, Rocas Calientes
- Friday, 10 May – the beachfront, Rocas Calientes
- Monday, 13 May – Hacienda Santuaria
- Monday, 3 June (early) – Hacienda Santuaria
- Thursday, 6 June – Hacienda Santuaria
- Friday, 14 June – Holiday Inn el Agua, Rocas Calientes
- Sunday, 16 June – Holiday Inn el Agua, Rocas Calientes
- Wednesday, 19 June – St Christopher’s Hospital, Colonia Centro, San Jose del Cabo
- Part 3: New York State
- Wednesday, 22 January 2020 – Sluggers Bar, Fifth Avenue, New York City
- Thursday, 23 January – Greyhound bus from JFK Airport, Queens to Manchester, Vermont
- Thursday, 23 January – Burlington International Airport, Vermont
- Acknowledgements
- Extract
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- About the Publisher
- The creator of the #CutForRhiannon hashtag on Twitter – I’ll do the cutting, thanks.
- Guy who punched his dog to death in the latest animal abuse video doing the rounds. I’ll find you one day, Mark Cordero. You mark my words.
- That British comedian turned criminologist who tries to psychoanalyse me on his true crime podcast. Seems confident but you put me or any of the inhabitants of Monster Mansion in a room with him and you wait for the smell of pissed pants.
- Rafael’s brother-in-law Edouardo
- Edouardo again. He deserves to be on here twice.
Whenever someone you love leaves you, or you leave them, it feels like they’ve taken a piece of you with them. And the place where that missing part is, it always hurts.
Sadness consumed me like a shroud all that day after Raf had left for San Diego and I knew it would be a month until I saw him again. I kicked around the Hacienda, on my own for once as Tenoch and the Chipmunks were out, but I couldn’t even take advantage of that because there was nothing I wanted to do. After all my chores were done, I opened the lid of the office laptop, retreating to the affection-starved millennial’s equivalent of a cuddle – the internet.
Is it possible for a serial killer to fall in love? was the first thing I googled. I learned a whole lot about hybristophiliacs – people who fall in love with serial killers purely because they are serial killers – but next to nothing about myself and what I was feeling.
The hybristophiliac search led to recent articles about the Rhiannon Lewis stans who were still out there, still with me in spirit, still loving the Sweetpea Killer and all her darkly devious deeds. There were more interviews with names from my past – Lucille from the PICSOs, Daisy Chan from the Gazette, White Nancy from WOMBAT, the family of Troy Shearer, the rapist I killed in the alley in Cardiff. More think pieces on why I did what I did, what might have caused it and an updated documentary about Priory Gardens, skewed towards ‘the creation of a monster’.
An ‘At Home With Freddie Litton-Cheney’ piece in Hello! mag.
And a wedding announcement in The Times.
Mr and Mrs P.D. Proudlove are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Claudia Margaret Gulper to Mitchell Aaron Silverton. The marriage took place on Saturday, 27 April at Southwark Cathedral. The Proudloves are pleased to welcome Mitch into their family.
This linked to a small news article:
Sweetpea’s Baby Gets New Family Months After Killer Gave Up Child For Adoption.