Someone We Know

by Shari Lapena

How, she fumes, are you supposed to teach a kid right and wrong when so many people in positions of authority regularly behave so badly? What the hell is wrong with America these days?

She hasn’t told them that Robert told her that night that he suspected Amanda was having an affair. She’s afraid if the police know, they will think he has a motive. And she hadn’t told Robert, when she was lying in bed with him, that she knew who Amanda might be having an affair with. She won’t tell the detectives what she saw. Not unless it becomes absolutely necessary. Because she knows who Amanda’s lover is. And there’s no way he killed her either.

Every marriage has its secrets. Glenda wonders what theirs were. —

But Raleigh also knows something that they don’t. And he’s going to have to tell them.