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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 75 The Kidnapper

The Kidnapper

She arrives back just after nine o’clock in the morning. I’ve been hiding, crouched at first, then sitting cross-legged, then reclining with my back against a neat stack of towels, for hours.

It’s a relief to finally hear the front door. A soft click, and she’s talking.

‘It’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine,’ she mutters under her breath; she is talking to herself. Through the crack in the door, like all those weeks ago, I see her. Hair tied up, pale skin, today carrying a lever arch file and a Stanley cup.