The Text by Claire Douglas

Author:Claire Douglas [Douglas, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781405935623
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Prologue

He had such pretty eyes; they were his best feature, the colour of the ocean. Now they are as glassy and lifeless as a china doll’s, staring up at the darkening sky, empty, unseeing. The stone ornament falls from my open palm and spins towards his body, where it lands heavily against his thigh.

Fear takes hold of me so that, for a few moments, I’m rooted to the spot, staring at the dent in his skull and the arc of blood that has sprayed from the back of his head, staining the grass red. Then I kneel down beside him, my knees sinking into the damp lawn. I’m careful not to touch him. I can leave no evidence.

I glance up furtively. The building is over two hundred feet away, the windows opaque, some with curtains hanging open, others with the blinds rolled up. Was anybody watching? I’m already starting to think like a criminal. Was I seen at the bottom of the garden among the weeds and overgrown grass?

Was I seen killing my husband?

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