Chapters (134)
- Cover
- ALSO BY J.S. MONROE
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- One week earlier
- 1
- Friday
- 2
- Saturday
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- Sunday
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
- 49
- Monday
- 50
- 51
- 52
- 53
- 54
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
- 60
- 61
- 62
- 63
- 64
- 65
- 66
- 67
- 68
- 69
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- 75
- 76
- 77
- Tuesday
- 78
- 79
- 80
- 81
- 82
- 83
- 84
- 85
- 86
- 87
- 88
- 89
- 90
- 91
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- 97
- 98
- 99
- 100
- 101
- 102
- 103
- 104
- 105
- 106
- 107
- 108
- 109
- 110
- 111
- One week later
- 112
- 113
- 114
- 115
- One month later
- 116
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
Rob doesn’t know him as well as she does, but he’s bought a number of pictures from his gallery in recent months.
‘Actually, he thinks he saw you in a Tesla.’
‘When?’
She detects a faint tightening of his voice, a hint of alarm. Bex tenses too, shaking her head as if this is all so unnecessary.
‘A couple of hours ago,’ she says.
‘That would be pushing it,’ he says, seemingly untroubled by the allegation. She needs to see his face so she can read his reaction better, but she daren’t look into his eyes. ‘Even for a Tesla. I’m three hundred miles away. And the car’s with you anyway. Isn’t it? I presume you’ve checked it hasn’t been stolen?’
She’s about to reply, ask him if he’s bought another car, when a military jet passes over the house, so low and loud that Bex ducks involuntarily. Kate’s got used to the noise. There’s been a lot of RAF activity in the area recently. And then a second one flies over.
Kate can’t help herself: she looks up at Rob’s face on the big screen. He is staring back at them, a fear in his eyes that she’s never seen before, as if he knows he’s about to be found out. It’s not him. She lunges forward and is about to shut the laptop when she and Bex both hear it again. One jet, followed by the roar of another. Except that this time the sound is coming from the Bose speakers all around them.
Kate stares at Bex in disbelief. ‘He’s in Cornwall.’
40
Jake
Jake sits down in front of Bex’s computer again, keen to discover more about Capgras syndrome. He’s just been back over to the canal, retrieving a few more sodden items that have floated to the surface. It was a depressing scene. People were friendly, but that just made it worse.
It seems that Capgras is brought on by physical or cognitive changes in the brain. Kate definitely had a lesion in her fusiform gyrus – Jake remembers discussing it with her doctors soon after the accident – but why would Capgras only manifest itself now, six months later? A psychological trigger, perhaps, such as Rob’s alarming talk of doppelgängers. It’s the sort of thing that might mess with Kate’s head at a time when she’s still fragile and possibly suffering from feelings of disconnectedness – another common precursor to Capgras. Bex is certainly worried about her.