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White Elephant

Trish Harnetiaux
Chapters (56)
  1. Cover
  2. PART ONE The Preparations for the Party
  3. Claudine
  4. Zara
  5. Henry
  6. Zara
  7. Zara
  8. Claudine
  9. Henry
  10. Zara
  11. Claudine
  12. Henry
  13. Zara
  14. Claudine
  15. Henry
  16. PART TWO The Affair
  17. Claudine
  18. Henry
  19. Claudine
  20. Henry
  21. Claudine
  22. Henry
  23. PART THREE The Game
  24. Zara
  25. Claudine
  26. Henry
  27. Zara
  28. Claudine
  29. Zara
  30. Henry
  31. PART FOUR The Murders
  32. Claudine
  33. Henry
  34. Claudine
  35. Henry
  36. Claudine
  37. Henry
  38. PART FIVE The Process of Elimination
  39. Claudine
  40. Henry
  41. Henry
  42. Zara
  43. Zara
  44. Claudine
  45. Henry
  46. Claudine
  47. Zara
  48. Claudine
  49. Henry
  50. Claudine
  51. Henry
  52. Claudine
  53. Henry
  54. Claudine
  55. Zara
  56. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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PART ONE The Preparations for the Party

As I write this, I sit at the small desk in the living room.

It’s just after 9 a.m., not a cloud in the sky, 74 degrees. I’ve always preferred Aspen in the early summer. A paradise.

I need to tell you something important before I go. Before I die. It’s difficult to write that word. In these last couple weeks since the scan and diagnosis I have tried to accept it. It is impossible. I will miss you too much. I don’t worry for myself. I am not afraid of death. I have lived afraid for too long. I will not die afraid. And I will not waste the time I have left.

It’s important to tell you everything. I should have done it a long time ago. I’m sorry. I’m sorry you will have to carry this with you like I have. But you deserve to know before there’s no one left to tell you the truth.

Claudine

By midnight the snowfall would reach a foot, just shy of breaking Aspen’s one-day record set more than forty years before. No one predicted the storm would be so severe. The sheer speed of it. The first flakes didn’t even start coming down until around two that afternoon.

Claudine couldn’t see them outside the salon’s picture window, her head stuck under a hooded dryer. With a freshly French-manicured hand, she reached into her cream-colored Chanel flap bag and pulled out the guest list: not counting herself, Henry, and their six employees. There hadn’t been much time to put the list together. Zara had let her know she was coming just a few days before. Considering the short notice and how packed Aspen social calendars were during the holiday season, these were good, solid choices:

Captain and Mrs. Tiggleman

Kevin and Jerry

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