A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena

Author:Shari Lapena
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-seven

Do you think he knows who his wife really is?” Jennings asks as they settle into the car and buckle up.

Rasbach shakes his head. “I doubt it. He looked terrified that we were going to tell him something about his wife he didn’t want to hear.” He pauses, and adds, “He’s got to be going through hell.”

Jennings nods. “Can you imagine going to bed every night with a woman who might be a murderer? It’s got to take a toll.”

Rasbach is frustrated that they haven’t been able to find any missing persons who match Karen’s profile. “Who the hell is she?” he wonders out loud. “I’d like to bring her in for questioning, but I don’t want to spook her.” He considers for a moment. “If we had enough to arrest her, we could get her prints and see if we could get an ID that way. We know she’s involved somehow. But the evidence we have against her now isn’t enough.”

“Trying to find out who she is is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” Jennings says. “You know how many people disappear in this country every year?” Rasbach raises his eyebrows at him. “I was speaking rhetorically, of course,” Jennings adds.

“I think the key to this is the victim,” Rasbach says. “Unidentified woman possibly kills unidentified man. Who are these people?”

“Organized crime? Witness protection?”

“Could be. I don’t know. But if we can ID either one of them, I think we’ll be able to ID the other.” He’s quiet for a moment. “She knows,” Rasbach says thoughtfully. As they pull into the station, he adds, “Let’s ask her to come in. We’ll be low-key about it.”

—

Karen gets into the shower, allowing herself to cry while the water pours over her. She doesn’t want to flee—she doesn’t want to leave Tom—but that might be her only option if things go south really quickly.

After a while she pulls herself together because she has to. She can’t just go to pieces. Even if it looks really bad right now, it doesn’t necessarily mean the police are going to be able to build a case. She needs to talk to Jack Calvin again, without her husband. She needs to know what her options are.

Because as soon as they identify the victim—as soon as they realize the dead man is Robert Traynor—then they will look more deeply into his life.

They will see that his wife died rather tragically almost three years ago.

There are photos of Georgina Traynor. She knows that detective will recognize her. He’s going to put it together and realize that she’d faked her suicide to run away from her husband, that he found her, and that he called her on the burner phone that night. And he’s going to think she killed him.

She feels sick with fear. It’s just a matter of time.

And Tom—what will Tom think when he finds out that she’s a fraud, that when he wed her she was already legally married to someone else? What

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