Shallow Grave. Karen Harper

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      Naples, Florida

      Claire had never been more content.

      “I’m glad we don’t have to be scared anymore,” her daughter, Lexi, said on their usual night walk around their neighborhood. “’Specially now that I’m almost five. Even in the dark ’cause it’s October now.”

      She was holding hands between Claire and her stepfather, Nick, skipping along on the cul-de-sac circled by their large, new house and four others. It was just after 6:30 in the evening. Nick carried a flashlight but hadn’t turned it on since the houses and pole lights, as well as the sharp slice of moon in the sky, made it light enough to see.

      Nick, a criminal lawyer and senior partner of a big law firm, had told Claire he’d been at his desk and conference СКАЧАТЬ