Chapters (65)
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- One
- Two
- Three
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- Five
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- Seven
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- Eighteen
- Nineteen
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- Twenty–one
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- Twenty–three
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- Twenty–eight
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- Thirty
- Thirty–one
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- Thirty–seven
- Thirty–eight
- Thirty–nine
- Forty
- Forty–one
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- Forty–eight
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- Fifty
- Fifty–one
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- Fifty–seven
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgments
- Also by Becky Masterman
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She didn’t look all that stressed to me. Now, me, I was a little stressed. I said, “Do you mind? I’ve been robbed. Besides, you’re underage, so you’ll drink Pinot Gris and like it.” I poured Gemma-Kate a glass of wine and put our sushi takeout on plates.
After a couple of bites of eel roll I was able to change the subject. “How did that project of yours go?” I asked. “The interview of Carlo?”
I thought of those rings in his nightstand. Refocused to hear Gemma-Kate say,
“I didn’t do it.”
“What do you mean you didn’t do it? You didn’t do the assignment at all?”
“No, I just talked with the instructor and said I had a more interesting idea but I’d need a week. It’s still about interviews, just not about mine, so it’s a different angle. The book you gave me.”
“How much have you read?”
Gemma-Kate looked like she would have rolled her eyes at me but it wasn’t worth the effort. “All of it,” she said. She picked up a piece of her rainbow roll, dipped it in the soy/wasabi mixture, and got it to her mouth without dripping or dropping. She took her time chewing it, and her only reaction to the wasabi was that her eyes watered. That’s how she would look if she ever cried, I thought.
“I started doing some checking, and reading other sources. One book called Truman Capote and the Legacy of ‘In Cold Blood.’ And the Kansas Historical Society Archives of prison documents. Really interesting stuff.”
“How so?”
She shook her head. “Not ready to talk about it yet. I’m still formulating conclusions.”
We ate a little while in silence, letting the sushi relieve the stress. Gemma-Kate got the last piece of crazy monkey roll because I was thinking about what I would do to find the asshole who broke into my house. Right after I beefed up the security. I was kicking myself about that. Later I would kick myself harder for not suspecting Jerry Nolan, but at that stage it would have just been paranoid. Plus right then I didn’t have any evidence of prior criminal activity. Plus if he was burglarizing more than one house why would he choose someone he knew already? He might not be the smartest guy, but I wouldn’t have thought he was that stupid.