Chapters (49)
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- 1Saturday, June 12, 6:32 p.m.Fifteen Years Later
- 2Saturday, June 12, 10:45 p.m.
- 3Saturday, June 12, 10:45 p.m.
- 4Monday, June 14, 7:20 p.m.Two Days Later
- 5Wednesday, June 16, 10:40 a.m.Two Days Later
- 6Wednesday, June 16, 12:10 p.m.
- 7Wednesday, June 16, 12:25 p.m.
- 8Wednesday, June 16, 1:28 p.m.
- 9Saturday, June 19, 9:12 a.m.Three Days Later
- 10Saturday, June 19, 8:10 p.m.
- 11Sunday, June 20, 10:12 a.m.
- 12Monday, June 21, 8:52 a.m.
- 13Monday, June 21, 11:15 a.m.
- 14Monday, June 21, 1:18 p.m.
- 15Monday, June 21, 5:38 p.m.
- 16Monday, June 21, 7:20 p.m.
- 17Monday, June 21, 7:30 p.m.
- 18Monday, June 21, 8:20 p.m.
- 19Tuesday, June 22, 10:22 a.m.
- 20Tuesday, June 22, 10:52 a.m.
- 21Tuesday, June 22, 1:08 p.m.
- 22Tuesday, June 22, 1:19 p.m.
- 23Tuesday, June 22, 1:47 p.m.
- 24Tuesday, June 22, 2:40 p.m.
- 25Tuesday, June 22, 3:12 p.m.
- 26Tuesday, June 22, 3:40 p.m.
- 27Tuesday, June 22, 3:58 p.m.
- 28Tuesday, June 22, 4:31 p.m.
- 29Tuesday, June 22, 6:10 p.m.
- 30Tuesday, June 22, 8:05 p.m.
- 31Wednesday, June 23, 9:32 a.m.
- 32Wednesday, June 23, 10:15 a.m.
- 33Wednesday, June 23, 12:45 p.m.
- 34Wednesday, June 23, 1:05 p.m.
- 35Wednesday, June 23, 4:12 p.m.
- 36Wednesday, June 23, 7:24 p.m.
- 37Friday, June 25, 7:17 p.m.
- 38Tuesday, June 29, 11:49 a.m.
- 39Tuesday, June 29, 1:10 p.m.
- 40Tuesday, June 29, 1:28 p.m.
- 41Thursday, July 22, 1:07 p.m.
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Also by Alafair Burke
- About the Publisher
I am also thankful to Philip Spitzer, Anne-Lise Spitzer, Lukas Ortiz, and Kim Lombardini at the Spitzer Agency; Jody Hotchkiss at Hotchkiss & Associates; Jonathan Burnham, Heather Drucker, Doug Jones, Katie O’Callaghan, Sarah Ried, Leah Wasielewski, and Lydia Weaver at Harper, as well as Jimmy Iacobelli and Miranda Ottewell; Angus Cargill, Lauren Nicoll, and Sophie Portas at Faber & Faber; Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein Ltd.; and Giulia De Biase at Edizioni Piemme. I am grateful to Jonathan Hayes, senior medical examiner in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, and to Harvey O’Brien, Michael Koryta, David Newman, and Andi Daniel for generously sharing their expertise.
I would not have gotten through what was a terribly difficult year-plus for all of us without a whole crew of incredibly kind and caring friends and family, especially my rock, Sean Simpson. Everything, always.
About the Author
ALAFAIR BURKE is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels, including The Better Sister, The Wife, and The Ex, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel. She also coauthored the bestselling Under Suspicion series with the late Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she continues to teach criminal law and lives in Manhattan and East Hampton.
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Also by Alafair Burke
- Long Gone
- If You Were Here
- The Ex
- The Wife
- The Better Sister
THE ELLIE HATCHER SERIES
- Dead Connection
- Angel’s Tip
- 212
- Never Tell
- All Day and a Night
THE SAMANTHA KINCAID SERIES
- Judgment Calls
- Missing Justice
- Close Case
COAUTHORED WITH MARY HIGGINS CLARK
- The Cinderella Murder
- All Dressed in White
- The Sleeping Beauty Killer
- Every Breath You Take
- You Don’t Own Me
- Piece of My Heart
- Where Are the Children Now?
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