Caller Unknown

Caller Unknown

Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m
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A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on ...

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CHAPTER 29

There are two images: Simone, alone, holding the gun, her teeth gritted, her eyes scrunched at their corners but open and staring. Her body is rigid and strong-looking, the gun held straight out in front of her in both hands.

She stares at it, repulsed. She has killed a man, barely processed it. And that moment, that moment that felt so right to her as she protected her daughter at all costs, was actually this: ugly and brutal. She’s the monster. Of everyone in this awful cast, she’s the killer.

The second photograph is Simone and Lucy, standing by the bleeding body, the gun visible on the top of the car.

The back of the car is out of the frame. The reality dawns on Simone like a hangover. The kidnap has not been captured. Only the shooting. The man getting out. Then Simone moving towards him, firing at him in plain sight. Nothing of the boot, Lucy, the handover.