Goodnight.”

I hung up and blocked the number, and I stood in my living room for a while and then I went to bed and slept eight hours, which surprised me.

Part Fifteen: The Woman in Paradise Valley

Evelyn Lawson called me two years after the party.

I was in a car park in Sorrento Valley between meetings and I sat there for forty minutes with the engine off.

“I want to say something and I would like to say it badly, which is the only way I know how,” she said.