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Chapters (64)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue
  4. Five Years Later
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. Twenty-one
  26. Twenty-two
  27. Twenty-three
  28. Twenty-four
  29. Twenty-five
  30. Twenty-six
  31. Twenty-seven
  32. Twenty-eight
  33. Twenty-nine
  34. Thirty
  35. Thirty-one
  36. Thirty-two
  37. Thirty-three
  38. Thirty-four
  39. Thirty-five
  40. Thirty-six
  41. Thirty-seven
  42. Thirty-eight
  43. Thirty-nine
  44. Forty
  45. Forty-one
  46. Forty-two
  47. Forty-three
  48. Forty-four
  49. Forty-five
  50. Forty-six
  51. Forty-seven
  52. Forty-eight
  53. Forty-nine
  54. Fifty
  55. Fifty-one
  56. Fifty-two
  57. Fifty-three
  58. Fifty-four
  59. Fifty-five
  60. Epilogue
  61. Acknowledgements
  62. Canelo Crime
  63. About the Author
  64. Also by Sheila Bugler

‘You assaulted her and locked her in a room,’ Ade said.

‘I shouldn’t have done that. I was panicking. I didn’t know what I was doing.’

‘What about the documents Clodagh found, alleging you assaulted her sister?’ Rachel asked.

Adam put his head in his hands.

‘I didn’t do those things to Vivienne. She made it up because she wanted a divorce.’

‘Bullshit.’ Rachel slammed her hand on the table, making Adam and his brief jump. ‘You cannot sit here and tell us all this crap and expect us to believe it. No matter what way you look at things, you have lied repeatedly. Which means you’re now in a situation where no one’s going to believe a word you say. You’ve told me how important your reputation is to you. Well, I’m afraid to tell you that reputation is ruined. And the only person to blame for that is you. Your lies have caught up with you, and now you’re going to have to deal with the consequences of everything you’ve done.’

She stood up.

‘Interview terminated at,’ she glanced at the clock on the wall, ‘5:45 p.m.’

Outside the interview room, she leaned against the wall taking some deep breaths, waiting for the rush of anger to pass.

‘You okay, Rach?’ Ade asked.

‘I’m angry he didn’t tell us the truth earlier,’ Rachel said. ‘All that time we wasted and the killer was there in front of us. How could I have missed it?’

‘We still don’t know for sure he’s the killer.’

‘You think we’ve called this wrong?’

‘I guess not.’ Ade sighed. ‘He’s got a motive for killing Nick. Tara too, if she knew about Vivienne and Nick. He’s got no alibi for either of the murders.’

‘Okay.’ Rachel nodded, her mind made up. Sod that voice inside her head. Her first case as SIO and she was almost ready to nail someone for the two murders. This was what she’d worked so hard for these last few weeks, sacrificing time with Grace and any prospect of a social life to get to this moment. She wasn’t going to let her own self-doubts get in the way. She’d come too far for that.

‘Let’s call everyone together, go back over every single piece of evidence against Adam Murray until we’ve found a way to make it stack up. I’m not going back into that interview room until I’m ready to charge him.’