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Copyright

Copyright © 2018 by Nic Joseph

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Joseph, Nic, author.

Title: The night in question : a novel / Nic Joseph.

Description: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018010353 | (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.

Contents

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Prologue

Part 1: The Week before the Night in Question

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Part 2: The Night in Question

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Part 3: The Week after the Night

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Reading Group Guide

A Conversation with the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Back Cover

For GUYCONJ

Prologue

I decided early on that telling the truth—the whole truth—was out of the question.

I wouldn’t lie about the important things, of course, since only liars do that, and I’m sure I don’t deserve such an unforgiving label.

I would, however, lie about the things that mattered little in reality but significantly in perception. I’d lie about those things because I had to, because there was no other choice, and because doing so would not, in the end, make me a bad person.

That’s what I would do.

I would lie about the tiny, unimportant things.

I would tell the truth about all the rest.

• • •

They wanted details.

Things like where I (allegedly) picked him up, what we (allegedly) talked about, and if I saw him with the victim when I (allegedly) dropped him off.