Caller Unknown

Caller Unknown

Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m

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 47

Four o’clock in the morning. Simone wakes from sleep, having dreamed about that time years ago when Lucy ran off in Sainsbury’s and Simone thought she would expire from anxiety.

In her dream, though, she doesn’t find her.

She heads down aisles blocked by other people, the police attend, and, at the end, she rushes clean out on to the street and screams. Four o’clock seems to have embedded itself in some maternal cave in Simone’s mind, like her brain is telling her, in the small hours of every day, what she almost lost.

Her next thought is Moody. A confession will be issued to him today. Maybe he will help, but maybe he will hand them over.