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Connie’s isolated house seemed to be the best hideaway for Meredith. Yet, her peace is disturbed when someone leaves an envelope with a photograph. The photograph shows her standing on the porch the previous day when she was watching the sea. Meredith thought that she had seen two seals, but it seems that there was only one seal, Harold, the one Connie knows about, and a man in a wetsuit and flippers, who must have taken the photograph.
Meredith keeps inside the house the rest of the day despite Connie’s reassurances that it will fine. They don’t know who has taken the photograph, but Meredith doesn’t think it is a journalist, whose first action would have been to publish the photograph in the media. Meredith thinks that the photo must have come from Freddy’s enemies, but she refuses to call the police. Then the following day when Connie pulls out of her house to go to the store, she sees someone has painted graffiti on the facade of her house. The graffiti reads ‘crook’, and dropping her intention to go the store, she rushes inside the house and tells Meredith about the graffiti, and this time the woman finally relents and agrees they should call the police. The regular chief of police in other novels by Elin Hilderbrand comes, Ed Kapenagh. I like when he turns up because it feels that these novels are part of a particular universe where some characters can appear again even if their appearance is brief and unimportant.
Apart from that, Connie has a missed call at 2.00 a.m from a code of the area where her daughter lives and works as a doctor. When Connie phones back, the call goes to voice mail, and she leaves a message, assuming that it is Ashlyn who is calling. Yet, I have the hunch that whoever called her at that time is not Ashlyn.
We also get to learn more about Freddie. Meredith fears that she might go to jail because a huge amount of money was transferred to an account in her name, and the second worry is for Leo, her son. Someone has accused him of being involved in her father’s Ponzi scheme, and the only person who can save him is a secretary, but before Freddie’s arrest she scarpered to Italy, and nobody has heard from her again. Meredith has only visited Freddy in prison once; she wanted answers to her questions, and when she asked him to tell the truth about her and Leo, Freddie refused to talk to her and simply walked back inside the prison. Now Meredith has heard that Freddie isn’t talking, and people say that he is suffering from post-traumatic disorder, but Meredith can’t believe it. She has come to understand that her husband is not good and won’t move a finger for her and their son.
The novel is already gathering speed. I wonder who is targeting Meredith in this hateful campaign. Someone has followed her there? Who? Someone who her husband cheated out of money?
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