Sterling.

Is there any reason Luca Vance would want to kill his wife?” And I took too long to answer, because there was a reason, and I knew it, and answering meant admitting that the signs had been there for months and I had not let myself read them.

Chapter 10 — Coffee, Months Earlier

What I remembered, sitting across from Detective Vance, was a conversation over coffee months earlier — Jessi across a small cafe table, turning her cup in her hands, telling me something in the careful, minimizing voice of a woman trying to talk herself out of her own suspicions.

There had been another woman, she thought.