Someone We Know

by Shari Lapena

  He’s going to retrieve the phone and drive a couple of hours north along the river to a deserted place he knows. He’s going to wipe it clean again and toss it into the deep water of the Hudson.

  Robert sinks to his knees and digs around in the earth where he buried the phone, but he doesn’t immediately find it. He digs deeper, faster, in a widening area, turning over the dirt rapidly, his breath quickening with rage. It’s not there.

  Becky. She must have seen him in the garden. She was always watching him. She must have dug up the phone.

  He rises to his feet, trying to control his fury, and stares across the fence at Becky’s empty house. Plotting his next move.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Shari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of the thrillers The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, and An Unwanted Guest, which have all been New York Times and UK Sunday Times bestsellers. Her books have been sold in thirty-five territories around the world. She lives in Toronto.