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Chapters (73)
  1. Rabbit Hole
  2. Also by Mark Billingham
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Preface
  8. PART ONE
  9. ONE
  10. TWO
  11. THREE
  12. FOUR
  13. FIVE
  14. SIX
  15. SEVEN
  16. EIGHT
  17. NINE
  18. TEN
  19. ELEVEN
  20. TWELVE
  21. THIRTEEN
  22. FOURTEEN
  23. FIFTEEN
  24. SIXTEEN
  25. SEVENTEEN
  26. EIGHTEEN
  27. NINETEEN
  28. TWENTY
  29. TWENTY-ONE
  30. TWENTY-TWO
  31. TWENTY-THREE
  32. TWENTY-FOUR
  33. TWENTY-FIVE
  34. TWENTY-SIX
  35. TWENTY-SEVEN
  36. TWENTY-EIGHT
  37. TWENTY-NINE
  38. THIRTY
  39. THIRTY-ONE
  40. THIRTY-TWO
  41. THIRTY-THREE
  42. PART TWO
  43. THIRTY-FOUR
  44. THIRTY-FIVE
  45. THIRTY-SIX
  46. THIRTY-SEVEN
  47. THIRTY-EIGHT
  48. THIRTY-NINE
  49. FORTY
  50. FORTY-ONE
  51. FORTY-TWO
  52. FORTY-THREE
  53. FORTY-FOUR
  54. FORTY-FIVE
  55. FORTY-SIX
  56. FORTY-SEVEN
  57. FORTY-EIGHT
  58. FORTY-NINE
  59. FIFTY
  60. FIFTY-ONE
  61. FIFTY-TWO
  62. FIFTY-THREE
  63. FIFTY-FOUR
  64. FIFTY-FIVE
  65. FIFTY-SIX
  66. FIFTY-SEVEN
  67. FIFTY-EIGHT
  68. PART THREE
  69. FIFTY-NINE
  70. SIXTY
  71. EPILOGUE
  72. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  73. Back Cover

‘You killed him on your first round of checks . . . or maybe your second, it doesn’t really matter. But you’d certainly already done it by the time you went in that third time and “discovered” the body and started screaming the place down. That was pretty clever, I’ll give you that much. I’m not sure if you knew Graham had already put the camera out of action or not, but either way he really did you a favour, didn’t he? It made everything so much more complicated for the police than it actually needed to be.’

‘OK,’ she said.

‘Then you got scared, because the person who was closest to Kevin knew exactly what you were up to. Maybe Shaun said something to you, told you he knew you’d murdered Kevin, but even if he didn’t, you decided it would be best to shut him up anyway. To be on the safe side.’

‘You’re talking about what happened when Shaun had that episode in the TV room?’

‘I’m talking about you silencing a key witness, yeah.’

Debbie nodded, thought for a few seconds. ‘So, it was Kevin’s room in that picture you did the other day?’

‘Right, like you didn’t know.’

‘And it was me in the room.’

‘Who else did you think it was—’

I stopped when I saw George poke his head around the door. I’m not sure if it was the look on my face or Debbie’s that he’d clocked. ‘Is everything OK in here?’

I sat back and pointed a finger. ‘You should ask her.’

By the time Debbie turned to look at him, she had a very different mask on. Up to then her face had been sort of dry and pinched, but now she was smiling. She said, ‘We’re fine, thanks, George. It’s all good. Alice is just telling me a story.’

THIRTY-THREE

THIRTY-THREE

This Is What I Believe.

Believe. Present tense . . .

The Earth is definitely not flat.

5G is not going to turn us all into zombies.

There are people in this world with too much wealth and power who will do anything they have to, including murder where necessary, to mould society into whatever shape suits them, while making sure the rest of us don’t know who they are. I’m not talking about spooky shit with robes and candles and human sacrifice. Not secret satanists or people who are really lizards. I just mean rich and powerful people doing bad things to hold on to what they’ve got and protecting their equally rich and powerful friends. You only have to look at what’s going on in the world and that makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

My mum and dad are obviously not part of anything like this and are genuinely good people.

My ex-boyfriend Andy isn’t either. He’s just a dick.