Chapter 27

Summary

• The protagonist, presumably Leah, is working on finding leads to track down an acquaintance, Vince Mendelson, and believes she has found something solid.
• She is interrupted by Kate who informs her that Davis Cobb, a person of interest, seemed to be returning to his coaching job, implying a change in the assumptions about his case.
• Leah later receives an unsettling email through a monitored account accusing her based on her presence at the scene of a past crime.
• The email is from someone named Emmy, a woman she had been living with that had disappeared and left no record of her existence.
• A dead body had been found, implying foul play, and the email seems to be accusing Leah of aiding Emmy in fleeing the crime scene.
• Leah suspects Kyle, a colleague and detective in the case, is using this as an opportunity to investigate her, possibly because of an anonymous tip implicating him.
• Leah is indeed investigated and is further questioned about her past as a journalist at a Boston newspaper, where she was falsely accused of defamation and making up a source.
• The narrative backtracks and describes how she aided Aaron Hampton, another character, in committing suicide after he had been implicated in the death of Bridget and other girls.
• It is revealed that Leah holds herself responsible for his death and explains why she was exiled from Boston. The protagonist is under suspicion of both aiding Emmy in disappearing and causing Aaron's suicide.
• Kyle confronts her about this, expresses disbelief and disappointment in her lack of integrity and accuses her of repeating past mistakes. Leah deflects and accuses him in return of compromising his own professional integrity, creating a tense divide between them.