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As the morning sun canted sharply through the bedroom window,…
By eight-thirty Karen was at yoga.
Karen hurried through the glass door and squeezed in front…
Ty Hauck was on his way to work.
Karen didn’t flip out at first. That wasn’t her way.
Her thoughts flashed to Samantha and Alex. Karen realized she…
When the call came in, Hauck was on the phone…
Hauck took the guy in the sport jacket, Freddy the…
I never heard from my husband again. I never knew…
A few days later—Friday, Saturday, Karen had lost track—a police…
The huge gray tanker emerged from the mist and cut…
A month later—a few days after they’d finally held a…
Down the street a man hunched in a darkened car,…
One of the things Karen had to deal with in…
It was September, the kids were back in school when…
It took him by surprise that night, Hauck decided as…
Their lives had just begun to get back on some…
It took just minutes, frantic ones, for Karen to get…
It was the second day of field-hockey practice, near the…
Karen clung to her daughter on the living-room couch. Samantha…
The call came in at eleven-thirty that night. The limo…
Archer and Bey turned out to be phony.
That night Hauck couldn’t sleep. It was a little after…
And then it was a year.
The morning was clear and bright, the suburban New Jersey…
Over the next few days, Karen must have watched that…
It took everything Karen had to do it.
Karen held back the urge to retch.
Saul Lennick’s office was close by, on the forty-second floor…
Karen was frantic. The next few days, she barely dragged…
Hauck headed back upstairs to his office from the holding…
“Who have you told?”
He’d said yes. Hauck went over the scene again.
The doorbell rang. Barking, Tobey scampered to the door. Alex…
Gregory Khodoshevsky gunned the engine on his three-wheeled, seventy-thousand-dollar T-Rex…
“Mr. Raymond?”
Pappy Raymond was holding back. Why else would he push…
Karen went back through all of Charlie’s things as Hauck…
The address was 3135 Mountain View Drive, a hilly residential…
Dock 39 was a dingy, nautical-style bar in the harbor,…
“Mom?”
Saul Lennick waited on the Charles Bridge in Prague overlooking…
By morning the welt on Hauck’s face had gone down…
Vito Collucci could find anything, if the matter was about…
The man broke through the surface of the glistening turquoise…
Twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday, Ronald Torbor generally took…
Karen rushed to drop Alex off at the Arch Street…
On the way home, Hauck rang up Freddy Muñoz.
There was a knock on the door the following afternoon,…
He had slipped up. Hauck read over his testimony once,…
Something strange crept through Karen’s thoughts that night. After she…
The interstate that ran barely a mile from where Hauck…
He watched the house all night. No lights ever went…
Hauck’s blood became ice. He went over to the window…
His side was on fire.
It was the car.
One Police Plaza was the home of the NYPD’s administrative…
After his meeting with Velko, Hauck went to the office…
Michel Issa squinted through the lens over the glittering stone.
The first thing that came back was the data from…
Karen pulled her Lexus into the driveway. She stopped at…
A day later Hauck and Karen arranged to meet. They…
The cell call came in just as Hauck was getting…
Hauck fixed on the name. Oilman. He knew without needing…
The doorbell rang, and when Karen went to answer it,…
The house was dark. Karen sat in Charlie’s office. The…
The day finally came for the kids to leave. Karen…
In a spot called Little Water Cay, near the islands…
When the call found him, Saul Lennick had just climbed…
Karen waited two days. Charles didn’t reply.
Charles sat in the corner of a quiet Internet café…
Hauck had gone out for an evening run around the…
Afterward they lay on the bed, spent, Karen’s body slick…
In the morning Hauck put on coffee. He was out…
Charles was inside the South Island Bank on St. Lucia…
Another day passed while Karen waited for Charles’s instructions. This…
“I’m going alone,” Karen explained to Hauck.
Rick and Paula were away. As were Karen’s kids. She…
The twelve-seater Island Air Cessna touched down on the remote…
There was nothing the next day either. Karen grew increasingly…
Forty miles away Phil Dietz sipped a black cactus margarita…
The morning broke hazy and warm.
She did know. Somewhere deep in her heart. It came…
Like a ghost, Charles stepped out of the thick, close…
“Save him?” A surge of anger flared up in Karen.
Anxious, Hauck decided to take a run, leaving the hotel’s…
“Listen, Charles, this is important.” Karen reached out and touched…
Karen didn’t arrive back at the hotel until well into…
Charles Friedman sat alone on the Emberglow, which was now…
“Ty, wake up! Look!” Karen stood at the side of…
A launch of white-uniformed officers from the town of Amysville…
Maybe they had been, Karen finally admitted as she went…
We led them to him, Karen.
Karen brought it into the kitchen. She went through the…
Saul Lennick sat in the library of his home on…
“I was placed on disciplinary leave,” Hauck said at Arcadia,…
Karen drove home.
Her heart crawled up her throat. She looked back, frozen,…
Hauck headed home from the coffeehouse in Old Greenwich, about…
A blade of fear knifed through Karen as the blood…
It took just minutes, Hauck’s Bronco speeding down Route 1…
Her face was pressed under the surface, breath tightening in…
The call came in just as Saul Lennick settled down…
Illegal search. Breaking and entering. Unauthorized use of official firearms.
Hauck drove his Bronco up to the large stone gate.
“Flesh becomes dust and ash. Our ashes return to the…