The Bennet flat needs processing. Had Dru been forced to participate in getting rid of the body? Or cleaning the floor? One of them had had to collect Grace’s belongings from the help flat, without Katja or Mum or Max seeing. My stomach hurt.But CSI had come and gone. They’re back at the lab alre...
I tell people that it’s all right if they don’t have time to talk or to read my updates or to meet up. I suppose it is, in a sense, all right, in that I intellectually accept that there are many genuinely good reasons for anyone not to be able to do these things, and that these legitimately signi...
It was dark and the clock said four. In winter, a dark four could be a.m. or p.m. and I didn’t know.I still had all my clothes on under the covers. My jeans felt stiff, like casts on my legs, and pinched my stomach. I tried to swing my legs over the side, but there was friction against the bedclo...
As I pull in and set the handbrake, I see a family with wet hair and inflatable toys exiting the lift. They must smell of chlorine, but from inside the car I imagine the salt-tinge from the Isle of Wight. I have to force myself to emerge. I’d long ago let my father go, like releasing a helium bal...