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Chapters (81)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. Twenty-one
  26. Twenty-two
  27. Twenty-three
  28. Twenty-four
  29. Twenty-five
  30. Twenty-six
  31. Twenty-seven
  32. Twenty-eight
  33. Twenty-nine
  34. Thirty
  35. Thirty-one
  36. Thirty-two
  37. Thirty-three
  38. Thirty-four
  39. Thirty-five
  40. Thirty-six
  41. Thirty-seven
  42. Thirty-eight
  43. Thirty-nine
  44. Forty
  45. Forty-one
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  47. Forty-three
  48. Forty-four
  49. Forty-five
  50. Forty-six
  51. Forty-seven
  52. Forty-eight
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  54. Fifty
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  60. Fifty-six
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  62. Fifty-eight
  63. Fifty-nine
  64. Sixty
  65. Sixty-one
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  68. Sixty-four
  69. Sixty-five
  70. Sixty-six
  71. Sixty-seven
  72. Epilogue
  73. Acknowledgments
  74. Read More
  75. Prologue
  76. One
  77. Two
  78. Three
  79. Four
  80. Follow Merilyn online
  81. Dedication

Nell looked up at the blackened window behind which O’Brian’s body lay. Why would Gloria hide O’Brian and then let someone in to kill him? Why not just do it herself? And if she had given access to the flat to another woman, then who the hell had a better motive to kill him than Gloria?

‘We’re going to have to bring Gloria in.’

‘That’ll be two to interview then, we’ve still got Kelly-Anne waiting for us.’

Kelly-Anne. Shit, she’d forgotten about her.

‘Do you think Kelly-Anne might have been the one Gloria let in?’ she asked.

Paul took out his car keys and put on sunglasses. ‘Maybe they decided to work together. Punish him once and for all.’

Nell wasn’t convinced Kelly-Anne had it in her, but then she’d never met Gloria, so Paul could well be right.

‘OK. Let’s get back to the station and get Gloria in. One of them is going to cave and I’ll bet you a hundred quid it’s Kelly-Anne.’

Sixteen

Carla had woken to a cup of tea by the bed and a note from Baz telling her he loved her. She’d pulled open her bedroom drawer, taken out the contraceptive pills hidden there and swallowed one down, trying to ignore the guilt she felt every morning and the lies she told Baz every time he mentioned babies.

The bus ride into work had been consumed by thoughts of Gerry and his mysterious meeting and by the time she was at her desk she felt tired and irritated, so Nell’s thinly veiled suggestion she wasn’t doing her job well stung. Particularly as Carla was worried she was right.

On the day Carla gave evidence, Gloria had been standing in the court hallway with the family liaison officer and Carla had been struck by the woman’s youthful appearance, and how much this jarred with the child nestled on her hip. It was day two of O’Brian’s trial and Gloria was pleading with the family liaison officer to let her see him.

‘I just want to see him, just for five minutes – I need to say I’m sorry.’

Carla had stared at the bruise running down Gloria’s cheek and thought she wasn’t the one who should be apologising. The family liaison officer clearly agreed.

‘But Gloria, you do understand it’s not you who’s to blame, don’t you? That what he did to you was wrong?’

Gloria looked frustrated. Adjusting the dummy in the toddler’s mouth, she said, ‘You don’t understand. I made him cross and he couldn’t help himself.’