You Don't Know Me

The Hidden Hours

For Matt
whose gift is
to know me
and to love me
as I am

The journos must think that if they squeeze hard enough, apply different pressure points, one of the family will eventually choke up some vital piece of information.

the Egyptian garments she favoured as house wear – encasing her ample form.

Rumours are already flying and it’s hard to pluck the facts from them,

was the boyfriend’s younger brother and therefore immediately connected to Lizzie’s disappearance.

welve years ago, Noah had thought that Lizzie Burdett was the most glorious thing to ever happen to his family, but she’d proved to be a wrecking ball.

Rumours are already flying and it’s hard to pluck the facts from them, but some snippets recur. She’d argued with her boyfriend at a party. He’d gone home without her. She’d followed him and they’d had another fight on his doorstep, around midnight. Then she ran off into the wet, cold night.