The Silent Girls
“He’d expected a trophy home, perhaps an estate, from what he knew of her relentless fund-raising and her prominence among the Beltway crowd, not to mention the generosity her rabid cult followers would undoubtedly bestow on her if called upon.
She must be hiding the money somewhere, Grout thought as he looked at the modest raised ranch that sat on perhaps a half acre of land among similar houses at the end of a respectable but unremarkable cul-de-sac.
“This is it?” Larkin asked, glancin...g at a map on his iPhone.
A light glowed in the home’s living-room window. No car sat in the driveway. Grout was tired; they’d hit snow in Vermont, then freezing rain down here. The going had been torturous, and Jen had called his cell and texted him every ten miles, asking where he was. Getting more strident with each message. Her voice all but screeching on the voice mail, her texts in all caps: WHERE ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?MoreLess
She must be hiding the money somewhere, Grout thought as he looked at the modest raised ranch that sat on perhaps a half acre of land among similar houses at the end of a respectable but unremarkable cul-de-sac.
“This is it?” Larkin asked, glancin...g at a map on his iPhone.
A light glowed in the home’s living-room window. No car sat in the driveway. Grout was tired; they’d hit snow in Vermont, then freezing rain down here. The going had been torturous, and Jen had called his cell and texted him every ten miles, asking where he was. Getting more strident with each message. Her voice all but screeching on the voice mail, her texts in all caps: WHERE ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?MoreLess
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