The Burning Island by Hester Young

Author:Hester Young [Young, Hester]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Adult
ISBN: 9780399174025
Google: WN6DDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07CR3T912
Barnesnoble: B07CR3T912
Goodreads: 40061643
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Published: 2019-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

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BACK AT KOA HOUSE, I pace Rae’s bedroom. “How are we supposed to get ahold of Jocelyn?” I grumble. “Even if she talks to me, there’s no way Victor doesn’t hear about it. And he won’t like it. At all. You heard what he and Sue did to Marvel. I can’t afford to get on his bad side.”

“Relax.” Rae lies in bed playing a Tetris knockoff on her phone. “You’re just doing what Sue told you to do. She asked you to get involved.”

“Yeah, behind her husband’s back.”

Rae doesn’t look up from her game. “I’m sure Jocelyn and Sue are used to doing things behind Victor’s back. This is not a big deal. We’ll find a way to bump into Jocelyn when her parents aren’t around and see what happens.”

“Bump into her how?” For the umpteenth time, I wish I had my phone. “You think she broadcasts her whole life on Twitter, too?”

“No,” Rae says, already several steps ahead of me. “She doesn’t have an account. But she’s on the Free Thought swim team, isn’t she? I bet they meet every day. We’ll just snag her after one of her practices. Tell her you need to interview her for the Outdoor Adventures piece. Victor won’t object to that.”

I stop pacing. I could legitimately use a few quotes from Victor’s daughter to pad the piece, and it’s the perfect excuse to approach Jocelyn. Rae’s good at all this maneuvering.

“We could probably arrange a run-in with her tomorrow,” I say. “I’ll just have to figure out how to bring up her sister without being too obvious.”

I drop onto the bed beside Rae and watch a gecko dart up the curtains. Compared to my room, the Tree Fern Room is dark and claustrophobic. Instead of warm yellow walls, the wallpaper is a leafy green forest. Here, the low-wattage lamps seem to cast more shadows than light, and the large potted ferns at the foot of the bed remind me of the Wakea Ranch woods.

Rae lets a couple of colored blocks drift to the bottom of her screen, a little dreamy. “Do you think the Nakagawa girls have one of those special twin connections?” she asks. “Like, if Lise’s dead, would Jocelyn feel it in her bones? Would she just know?”

Once, I would’ve laughed at all that metaphysical crap; now it’s my life. I sigh.

“I don’t know, but you should’ve seen their bedroom. So much for identical DNA. It was like college roommates, two strangers smooshed in a single room.”

“Identical DNA can express itself differently.” Rae returns to her phone, trying to clear the mounting Tetris blocks. “You’ve got factors like environment, diet, physical activity, drug and alcohol use . . . all those would lead to variations over time. And family dynamics. Maybe Victor and Sue needed them each to play a certain role.”

“They sure did look alike.” I shiver. “All those pictures on the wall at the Nakagawas’ place . . . I didn’t even realize that they were two different people.

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