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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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  59. About the Publisher
  1. The creator of the #CutForRhiannon hashtag on Twitter – I’ll do the cutting, thanks.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Rafael’s brother-in-law Edouardo
  5. 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.