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Chapters (49)
  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapitre Un
  4. Chapitre Deux
  5. Chapitre Trois
  6. Chapitre Quatre
  7. Chapitre Cinq
  8. Chapitre Six
  9. Chapitre Sept
  10. Chapitre Huit
  11. Chapitre Neuf
  12. Chapitre Dix
  13. Chapitre Onze
  14. Chapitre Douze
  15. Chapitre Treize
  16. Chapitre Quatorze
  17. Chapitre Quinze
  18. Chapitre Seize
  19. Chapitre Dix-sept
  20. Chapitre Dix-huit
  21. Chapitre Dix-neuf
  22. Chapitre Vingt
  23. Chapitre Vingt et un
  24. Chapitre Vingt-deux
  25. Chapitre Vingt-trois
  26. Chapitre Vingt-quatre
  27. Chapitre Vingt-cinq
  28. Chapitre Vingt-six
  29. Chapitre Vingt-sept
  30. Chapitre Vingt-huit
  31. Chapitre Vingt-neuf
  32. Chapitre Trente
  33. Chapitre Trente et un
  34. Chapitre Trente-deux
  35. Chapitre Trente-trois
  36. Chapitre Trente-quatre
  37. Chapitre Trente-cinq
  38. Chapitre Trente-six
  39. Chapitre Trente-sept
  40. Chapitre Trente-huit
  41. Chapitre Trente-neuf
  42. Chapitre Quarante
  43. Chapitre Quarante et un
  44. Chapitre Quarante-deux
  45. Chapitre Quarante-trois
  46. Chapitre Quarante-quatre
  47. Acknowledgements
  48. About the author
  49. Copyright

But I try not to think about that one. Because when I do, I know what comes next: even though Thomas thought my mother had a photograph of him, even though I posed a mild risk, he didn’t just let me go, didn’t just pick another victim instead. And I am left asking: why couldn’t he let me go?

Why did it have to be me?

Which then leads to thoughts of Sabine, and how if she hadn’t seen him and recognised him, she’d be alive now. And then: guilt. Because Sabine saved me in a way. After her death, I was put on ice until things calmed down.

That is, of course, until one night, I arrived on his doorstep…

Those sorts of thoughts will fuck you up at 4 am, it’s almost impossible to make them stop, and when I manage it’s only to think other equally shit things like, What would have happened if Camilla hadn’t called me that night I went to Thomas’s house for help? The night I showed him that picture from Sabine’s video with her hand in frame? What if he hadn’t heard me tell Camilla, ‘I’m just at Thomas’s house’? Would he have killed me then?

Mum and Neville break up for good and she meets a new Neville – this one is called Marc. Camilla realises the guy on the fourteenth floor is not her soulmate but she hasn’t had her identity stolen yet either, so maybe both of us were wrong. She gets the job at Vogue and is constantly bringing me tops a size too small from sample sales.

Agnès Bisset goes to trial. Her messages are dissected as part of the investigation. It turns out she would have disposed of Sabine herself if Thomas hadn’t done it for her.

The Klimt isn’t recovered, she claims it was a fake but that doesn’t matter because I was right about that not being her first foray into white collar crime. A vast number of artefacts from questionable origins are seized from Geneva Freeport. It turns out she was using emerging art, selling pieces she bought cheap for seriously inflated prices, to move said artefacts. Not once do I read the name Philip Crawford-White in the papers, of course.

DNA extracted from Thomas is added to the UK National DNA Database. There’s a positive match with the DNA taken from a 2015 UK murder scene.