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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
  57. 1
  58. 2
  59. About the Publisher

Rhiannon Lewis has successfully fooled the world and framed her cheating fiancé Craig for the depraved and bloody killing spree she committed. She should be ecstatic that she’s free.

Except for one small problem. She’s pregnant with her ex-lover’s child. The ex-lover she only recently chopped up and buried in her in-laws’s garden. And as much as Rhiannon wants to continue making her way through her kill lists, a small voice inside is trying to make her stop.

But can a killer’s urges ever really be curbed?

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Joanne Haynes has a secret.

That is not her real name.

And there’s more. Her flat isn’t hers. Her cats aren’t hers. Even her hair isn’t really hers.

Nor is she any of the other women she pretends to be. Not the bestselling romance novelist who gets her morning snack from the doughnut van on the seafront. Nor the pregnant woman in the dental surgery. Nor the chemo patient in the supermarket for whom the cashier feels ever so sorry. They’re all just alibis.

In fact, the only thing that’s real about Joanne is that nobody can know who she really is.

But someone has got too close. It looks like her alibis have begun to run out …

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ELLIS

Monday, 21st October

I can’t read this Hello! magazine again. There’s only so many times I can admire Brooklyn Beckham’s left armpit. It’s not as though there’s anything else to read either. There’s a Vogue with dried snot on the contents page. And Charlize Theron is on the cover of Cosmo so I can’t even touch that one. I’ve been afraid of her since Snow White. Keep thinking she’ll come out of the page and bite me.

So, in the absence of reading material, I’m squinting at a cockroach scuttling across the floor with a clump of shorn hair on its back like some tiny game show host. My own hair sits lankly around my ears – it can’t wait another day. I’ll give it another five minutes before I go back to the flat and dye it myself over the bath with a kit.

And now the baby’s grizzling. I’ve tried sticking my knuckle in her mouth but she’s hungry. I’m not feeding her here. How can you talk to a perfect stranger quite politely one moment and then flop your boob out the next? How do women do that? And what is the stranger supposed to do? Not look at it? A boob is my third most private part after my feet and my noo-noo. I’d look. Not for long, but I would look.