As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

by Holly Jackson

“Oh.” Josh nodded, seeming to accept the explanation. “Like the guy who’s been watching our house?”

But my girlfriend’s probably going to need a good lawyer one day, so…” He winked at her. The very same thing he’d said after she told him how the mediation went.

Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Ps. remember to always kill two birds with one stone.

“I see,” he said, “not even a glance back, or one of your scornful looks. Not a hug, not a kiss. Not an Oh, Ravi, darling, you look devilishly handsome today and you smell like a spring dream. Oh, Pip, my dear, you are too kind to notice. It’s a new deodorant I’m trying.”

“We’re going out for a walk. Oh, what a fantastic idea, Ravi, you’re so smart and handsome. Oh, Pip, I know I am, but do try to keep it in your pants, your father is downstairs.”

You’re my person. My little one. My Sarge. And I’m supposed to protect you.”

This leads me to believe that our killer lives in a different nearby location, one that hasn’t yet come up in the investigation, his untouched buffer zone.