Evan's Gate (2011)
“Watkins opened the driver’s door this time and got in.
“You know them,” Watkins said, “so what did you think?”
“I knew them twenty-five years ago when they were kids.”
“So you didn’t have any suspicions about any of them in those days.”
“You mean wondering whether any of them might have killed Sarah?”
Watkins nodded.
“Never crossed my mind,” Evan said. “I was a kid too, remember. When you’re seven years old, you take people at face value. They were perfectly normal—Henry was always a bit pompou...s. When we played, he was very big on rules. Suzanne was always getting upset and saying that other people were cheating and it wasn’t fair. Val often did try to cheat, and Nick was just as you saw him today, always willing to do what the others wanted.”
“That’s pretty much how they came across now, wasn’t it? The girl is a bit highly strung, wouldn’t you say?”
“But that doesn’t mean that she’d be bonkers enough to kill her younger sister. And she wouldn’t have had the strength to carry her over a mountain and down the other side and then bury her.MoreLess
“You know them,” Watkins said, “so what did you think?”
“I knew them twenty-five years ago when they were kids.”
“So you didn’t have any suspicions about any of them in those days.”
“You mean wondering whether any of them might have killed Sarah?”
Watkins nodded.
“Never crossed my mind,” Evan said. “I was a kid too, remember. When you’re seven years old, you take people at face value. They were perfectly normal—Henry was always a bit pompou...s. When we played, he was very big on rules. Suzanne was always getting upset and saying that other people were cheating and it wasn’t fair. Val often did try to cheat, and Nick was just as you saw him today, always willing to do what the others wanted.”
“That’s pretty much how they came across now, wasn’t it? The girl is a bit highly strung, wouldn’t you say?”
“But that doesn’t mean that she’d be bonkers enough to kill her younger sister. And she wouldn’t have had the strength to carry her over a mountain and down the other side and then bury her.MoreLess
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