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Chapters (66)
  1. Cover
  2. THE HEATWAVE
  3. Readers love The Heatwave
  4. Dedication
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Chapter Seven
  13. Chapter Eight
  14. Chapter Nine
  15. Chapter Ten
  16. Chapter Eleven
  17. Chapter Twelve
  18. Chapter Thirteen
  19. Chapter Fourteen
  20. Chapter Fifteen
  21. Chapter Sixteen
  22. Chapter Seventeen
  23. Chapter Eighteen
  24. Chapter Nineteen
  25. Chapter Twenty
  26. Chapter Twenty-One
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two
  28. Chapter Twenty-Three
  29. Chapter Twenty-Four
  30. Chapter Twenty-Five
  31. Chapter Twenty-Six
  32. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  33. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  34. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  35. Chapter Thirty
  36. Chapter Thirty-One
  37. Chapter Thirty-Two
  38. Chapter Thirty-Three
  39. Chapter Thirty-Four
  40. Chapter Thirty-Five
  41. Chapter Thirty-Six
  42. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  43. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  44. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  45. Chapter Forty
  46. Chapter Forty-One
  47. Chapter Forty-Two
  48. Chapter Forty-Three
  49. Chapter Forty-Four
  50. Chapter Forty-Five
  51. Chapter Forty-Six
  52. Chapter Forty-Seven
  53. Chapter Forty-Eight
  54. Chapter Forty-Nine
  55. Chapter Fifty
  56. Chapter Fifty-One
  57. Acknowledgements
  58. Keep Reading …
  59. The second book in Katerina Diamond’s bestselling crime series
  60. The third book in Katerina Diamond’s bestselling crime series
  61. The fourth book in Katerina Diamond’s bestselling crime series
  62. The fifth book in Katerina Diamond’s bestselling crime series
  63. The sixth book in Katerina Diamond’s bestselling crime series
  64. About the Author
  65. Also by Katerina Diamond
  66. About the Publisher

I find the paper describing the girl that went missing at the fair. I remember her face that night as she stood under the Ferris wheel, her hair changing colour as the lights reflected off it. There are moments in your life that you wish you could go back to and make different decisions. I wish I could go back to that fair and tell that girl to be careful, tell her not to get in any cars or talk to any strangers. I think about my Daisy and how when you’re young you just never think it’s going to be you. Bad things only happen to other people, never to you, never to the people you love. Until you learn that lesson the hard way. It can happen to anyone, at any time. You can be good or bad, it doesn’t matter, it’s all random, there is no higher power, no reward or punishment system. Bad things happen to good people all the time and bad people often prosper in life.

I look at the newspapers after the date of her disappearance, to see if there is any more information. She was an only child, her parents were completely devastated, and as I move through the archive I see that occasionally they’ve taken out adverts in the paper appealing for information; to this day they are still trying to find out what happened to their daughter. I push it to the back of my mind. I can’t be sure that I know what happened to her. All I have are suspicions, all I have are theories I can’t get the answers to. I thought I knew the truth once. I was horribly wrong.

There were several suspects in her disappearance, although only one person got lumbered with the blame and to this day I still don’t know if he did it. He already had a terrible reputation and everyone was happy to have a face to put to the crime, so they accepted his guilt with ease. Knowing what I know now, I just don’t think it was that simple. I think we were all to blame. We all looked the other way because it suited our narrative of what ‘bad’ looks like. I know now that you can’t take anyone at face value, that you should never just accept the version of a person they put in front of you. The nicer someone is, the more you have to fear.

Chapter Fifteen

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