‘None of the forty kids disappeared in that time. And look at the signature on this one. It reads “D.R. Hunter”.’ ‘What about it?’ ‘Dad doesn’t have a middle name. But Mum does. It’s Ruth. Deborah Ruth Hunter. She has slipped up; she used her own initials instead of his. These diaries are in Dad’s name but filled in by her. It wasn’t Dad travelling from county to county, it was her. She did his accounts, didn’t she? She managed his diaries. These diaries.’ I clasp my hand to my mouth. ‘You think it was Debbie and not Dave who . . . who . . .’ I can’t even finish what I’m trying to say, but he
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