She was the girl who hated me as a child for reasons I couldn’t fathom.
She was the teenager who grew up slimmer and prettier, who escaped the Low Side, and moved to New York City.
She was the stepsister who married rich.
She was a person bound to call on me in a crisis, but not when time came to take care of her little girls while she went on vacation.
‘No, no, it’s just easier for them to stay in their own home …’ she’d said.
Vincent broke the silence between us.
‘You want me to fix it, Miss Molly?’
‘Fix it,’ I said.
‘You know that’s a different price?’
‘I understand.’
I don’t allow myself to think about what happened next. I think only of how I retreated to my apartment, put my bare feet up on the balcony rail and waited for my father to call and say: ‘Molly? Can you come over? Please. Just come now.’
About the Author
Caroline Overington is a writer and journalist. She is the author of nine books and has twice won Australia’s most prestigious award for journalism, the Walkley Award. In 2015 her book on Louisa Collins, Last Woman Hanged, won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing. She lives in Sydney, Australia, and Santa Monica, USA.
Praise for Caroline Overington’s novels
I Came to Say Goodbye
‘brilliant … It is the sort of book you read in two
days, then talk about for weeks afterwards’
— Australian Women’s Weekly
Sisters of Mercy
‘keeps the reader hooked in the mystery to the
very last page’ — Lip Mag
Can You Keep a Secret?
‘a page turner that will keep you guessing until
the final pages’ — Culture Street
Copyright
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First published in Australia in 2016
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Overington, Caroline, author.
The one who got away / Caroline Overington.
Detective and mystery stories.
Suspense fiction.
Psychological fiction.
A823.4
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Author photograph: Australian Women’s Weekly
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