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It’s eventually revealed that he stole them with help from Sue, his contact at MI5 who
(This book picks up very soon after the previous novel ends with the same main characters — Elizabeth,
Elizabeth shows up at the proposed and finds her ex-husband Douglas, there
He’s still active in MI5, and he’s accompanied by his handler, Penny, who is young
Officers Donna and Chris determine that the perpetrator is Ryan Baird, a local teenager who works with
Douglas wants Elizabeth’s help in keeping a look-out for possible threats
Elizabeth agrees to help in exchange for information on Ryan Baird, and Poppy soon gives her the
Soon after, an intruder tries to shoot Douglas, but Poppy kills the intruder
When Douglas and Poppy are taken to be questioned by Sue and Lance, Joyce finds a note
Meanwhile, Elizabeth has a plan regarding Ryan and asks her friend Bogdan to acquire come cocaine
Ron then goes to Ryan’s house, pretending to be a plumber sent by the housing association
He plants the cocaine and Ibrahim’s credit card in Ryan’s toilet and then “anonymously” calls
Also, Douglas and Poppy have been relocated to a nearby town
However, when Elizabeth and Joyce arrive, they find Douglas and Poppy are both dead, having both been
In Part II, Elizabeth and Joyce are questioned about the discovery of the bodies
Sue gives Elizabeth a locket inscribed with her name that they found on Douglas’s body
He was holding them (as the middle-man) for a deal between some American mafia guys and some
Lomax admits to sending Andrew to scare (but not kill) Douglas, but he insists he wasn’t
(American mafia guy who owns the diamonds) is on headed to Fairhaven, likely for the purpose of
Later, Elizabeth recalls that Douglas had pointed out a hole in a tree, which he’d commented
It says that the diamonds were hidden in Locker 531 at the Fairhaven train station
If they’re gone, it likely means he somehow faked his death and escaped with the diamonds
Meanwhile, Chris and Donna have continued to investigate Connie Johnson
Chris has also continued seeing Donna’s mother Patrice (who he met towards the end of Book #1)
Additionally, Ryan failed to show up for his court date and is nowhere to be found
Elizabeth uses an infra-red light on the bag, and it reveals a hidden message
It says that this is an extra layer of security, that the diamonds are elsewhere and that
Elizabeth also asks Donna to procure the CCTV footage to see if anyone else has visited the
She figures out that those were hints that Locker 531 was meant to be inversed — and that the
Elizabeth theorizes that if Siobhan was the one visiting the locker, then Poppy must’ve found out
Poppy could’ve overheard Douglas telling Elizabeth the truth (that he stole them) and then killed him
She plans a meeting with Martin Lomax at the pier saying she’ll give him the diamonds
(Her plan is to force Poppy to come out into the open when Poppy realizes the diamonds
So, they tell Connie to bring Ryan Baird with her to drive her to meeting (claiming that
(The idea is that by involving Connie and Ryan, it’ll implicate them in an illicit deal,
When the big meeting arrives, Frank, Martin and Connie meet up (with Bogdan and Lance in the
She then tries to leave, but is promptly arrested by Chris and Donna (who were waiting outside)
After Poppy failed to appear, Elizabeth figured out that things were less complicated than they seemed and
Instead, Elizabeth realizes that Sue must’ve been the one to put the note in Joyce’s
Sue purposely wanted them to think “Siobhan” was Poppy’s mother (to set them on a false
Poppy later overheard Douglas telling Elizabeth about the diamonds and hinting at the dead-letter drop
Sue read the letter and realized that Douglas planned to betray her, so she told Martin where
When the guy Martin sent failed to kill Douglas, Sue did the job herself and shot Douglas (
In present day, Sue tells Elizabeth that she has three armed dudes working for her and they’
(It’s soon revealed that Bogdan incapacitated the three armed dudes and told them to tell Sue
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