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‘Yes sir’

Brébeuf hung up As soon as this case was over he’d have to figure out what to do with Robert Leent was really too ie sensation in his chest Not the tightening he’d had ever since Superintendent Brébeuf had appealed for his help, but a loosening, a euphoria

Had Superintendent Brébeuf just offered him a promotion? Could he do as best and benefit at the saht turn out all right after all

Hazel S for Madeleine to come home Each footfall, each creak of the floorboards, each turn of a knob was her

Then not Every ain And now the door to the living roo to see Mad’s cheery face and a tea tray – it was tea tihter’s cheery face

Sophie stepped in holding a huge glass of red wine for herself and made her way around the crowded room until she’d reached the sofa

‘So, what’s for dinner?’ she said, flopping into a chair and picking up a er It was as though she’d lost both of theht Madeleine dead and Sophie possessed This wasn’t the sairl What had happened toin front of her was radiant It was as though the spirit of Madeleine had entered Sophie Only without the heart Without the soul Whatever was radiating from Sophie wasn’t joy or love or warmth

But it was happiness Madeleine was dead, horribly, grotesquely dead And Sophie was happy

It scared Hazel alated, trying to read thethe heaved and holed road He saw nothing of their progress except lurching squiggles and dots It was fortunate he didn’t get car sick

‘It’s just beyond here’ Gah the windshield ‘Watch out’

Beauvoir yanked the steering wheel but they hit the pothole anyway

‘You knoas doing just fine before you looked up,’ he said

‘You hit every hole between here and Three Pines Watch out’