Chapter 14

She knew what they were going to ask

“Your wife paid nine thousand euros to a young man of twenty-two. Do you know him?”

You know that a fifty-eight-second call is a verifiable fact, and that the police asked, the following morning, exactly the question announced in the night. Still to come: what lies behind a bedroom wall, what fifty-eight entries reading “Rennes” mean in eleven diaries, and the sentence a man said one evening in September 2009 while putting away the washing-up.

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