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Chapters (61)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Dedication
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  18. Thirteen
  19. Fourteen
  20. Fifteen
  21. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  22. Sixteen
  23. Seventeen
  24. Eighteen
  25. Nineteen
  26. Twenty
  27. Twenty-One
  28. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  29. Twenty-Two
  30. Twenty-Three
  31. Twenty-Four
  32. Twenty-Five
  33. Twenty-Six
  34. Twenty-Seven
  35. Twenty-Eight
  36. Twenty-Nine
  37. Thirty
  38. Thirty-One
  39. Thirty-Two
  40. Thirty-Three
  41. Thirty-Four
  42. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  43. Thirty-Five
  44. Thirty-Six
  45. Thirty-Seven
  46. Thirty-Eight
  47. From the Journal of Candace Swain
  48. Thirty-Nine
  49. Forty
  50. Forty-One
  51. Forty-Two
  52. Forty-Three
  53. Forty-Four
  54. Forty-Five
  55. Forty-Six
  56. Forty-Seven
  57. Letter Found in the Journal of Candace Swain
  58. Forty-Eight
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. Booklist
  61. Excerpt

That didn’t make it better. Before she could admonish him further, he said, “I looked the last day of classes up from that year. November 20. Finals were the next week, then break started on November 30.”

“Did you take anything else?”

“No. I swear. But I think her computer is missing. There were cords for a laptop, but no laptop.”

“The police will have searched her house and made note of that,” she said as she handed the photo back to him. “We’ll keep this between you and me for now.” She was concerned that his impulsive actions might have a permanently detrimental impact on his future career plans.

She wanted to turn all of this over to Detective Young. If she and Lucas could make a compelling case, maybe he would pursue it.

Yet...she didn’t know if she trusted the cop. She wanted to. Nothing in his background said he was corrupt. But he was dating Rachel Wagner, which gave Regan pause.

Why? Because you didn’t like her when you met her? Or because you think she had something to do with all this?

What would Rachel gain by helping Taylor cover up Candace’s murder?

Until Regan could answer that definitively, she didn’t know how much she should tell Young. She wanted to, because it was the right thing to do: it was his investigation. But maybe...she should bring in someone else, such as turn everything over to the sheriff’s department. They technically didn’t have jurisdiction, except for Taylor’s death.

She wanted to run this all by her dad, see what he had to say. He understood the potential problems and legal issues far better than she. For her, the most important thing was to make sure Lucas and Alexa were safe now while she and Lucas kept looking into Candace’s disappearance and homicide through the podcast and follow-up.

Alexa definitely knew more about what had happened to Candace. And she might be the only person still alive who did—which put her in danger and which Regan might be able to use to get Detective Young to revisit the case sooner rather than later.

But none of Lucas’s theories pointed to who might have killed Candace.

“Lucas, I’m going to try to convince Alexa Castillo to talk to me. Can you stay here? Don’t leave the apartment. Don’t answer the door.”

“Okay.”

“I’m serious,” she said because he didn’t sound convinced. “We opened up this hornets’ nest tonight. You have been feeding details about Candace’s death out, enticing listeners, implying you have more... What if the killer thinks you can implicate them?”

“But if Taylor killed Candace, why would anyone else come after me?”

“You can’t assume that, not without more evidence. Let me work this out, and I’ll call you as soon as I know something.”

Thirty-Six