Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
PART 1
CHAPTER 1 Three bodies
CHAPTER 2 Teddy
CHAPTER 3 Sirens, lights
CHAPTER 4 Loiva
CHAPTER 5 Sheehy
CHAPTER 6 Emily
CHAPTER 7 Sef gives his statement
CHAPTER 8 Love and marriage
CHAPTER 9 Tawas
CHAPTER 10 The quake
CHAPTER 11 Auglys
CHAPTER 12 An orphan’s appeal and a reconstruction
CHAPTER 13 A new life
CHAPTER 14 Aftershocks
CHAPTER 15 The siblings
CHAPTER 16 Teddy’s troubles
CHAPTER 17 One sweet day
CHAPTER 18 ‘Definite Vibez’
CHAPTER 19 A dream turns sour
PART 2
CHAPTER 20 Wired
CHAPTER 21 Poison plot
CHAPTER 22 Kathy Wu
CHAPTER 23 Sef’s first interview
CHAPTER 24 A friendship ends
CHAPTER 25 The follow-up interview
CHAPTER 26 The inheritance
CHAPTER 27 Countdown to murder
CHAPTER 28 Undercover
CHAPTER 29 A prostitute, a taxi driver and a second alibi
CHAPTER 30 Linda Pham
CHAPTER 31 A newspaper interview
CHAPTER 32 An abduction
PART 3
CHAPTER 33 Under arrest
CHAPTER 34 Incarceration
CHAPTER 35 A quest for freedom
CHAPTER 36 The estate
CHAPTER 37 The committal
CHAPTER 38 Committed
CHAPTER 39 Sef on trial
CHAPTER 40 Trial: the conclusion
CHAPTER 41 Life times three
CHAPTER 42 Moving on
Epilogue
Author’s note
Acknowledgements
Plates Section
Copyright
Guide
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