“He framed her,” Sarah whispered into her hand.

“He killed Vance, and he framed his own brother’s wife for it.”

Chapter 20 — The Empire of Lies

“Why?” Warden Mitchell asked, and his voice was low and shaking with a fury he was working hard to keep controlled.

He turned to the prosecutor, though the prosecutor had no answer either.

“Why would he do this?

Why frame Elena?”

It was Sarah Jenkins who answered, the pieces assembling themselves in her mind even as she spoke, five years of an incomprehensible case suddenly rearranging into a single, ugly, coherent picture.