The Disappearing Act by Catherine Steadman

Author:Catherine Steadman [Steadman, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Adult
ISBN: 9780593158036
Google: S3AtEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0593158032
Barnesnoble: 0593158032
Goodreads: 55421402
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2021-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13

I head back to my apartment taking a deliberately complex route, bending back on myself several times, slowing and changing roads whenever I feel a car too close behind or if I notice one following for more than a block. I’m half expecting someone to swoop in and snatch Emily’s phone and laptop from the seat beside me. I try not to think about the fact that wherever Emily is, she has no phone, no wallet, and no car. I try to shake the thought of the actress who jumped from the sign and her carefully stacked possessions. Her broken lifeless body lying undiscovered in the Hollywood Hills.

At the back of my mind I know my elaborate route home is ultimately useless as whoever hired Joanne already knows where to find me; they sent her to my apartment two nights ago, after all. I texted my address to Emily’s phone. I curse myself for not asking Joanne if she had been the one using Emily’s phone to contact me or if I’d been speaking to someone else via those texts.

Even though they most likely know my address, I’ll still be safer back at the apartment with its CCTV protection and Miguel and Lucy keeping a watch than out here. It would be so easy for someone to carjack me right now, driving down dimly lit roads; they’d leave no trace except my abandoned car. And at this stage I’m under no illusions that my car wouldn’t disappear, too, just like Emily’s. There are no doubts in my mind that given half a chance, LA could swallow me whole in one night.

As I pull into the Ellis Building’s brightly lit porte cochere, I feel the tension in my shoulders release slightly. I catch sight of Miguel wandering over to greet me, and his small talk buoys me as he helps wrangle my long-forgotten gifting-suite bags toward reception. Still, I’m careful to keep one bag in particular close, feeling the reassuring weight of Emily’s things digging the cloth straps of a gifting tote sharply into my shoulder.

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