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The one-paragraph version: the Th Murder Lodge gets involved in a new case as Elizabeth'due south ex-husband, Douglas (a MI5 amanuensis), shows upward asking for help since he stole 20M in diamonds and is in hiding. When he winds up dead, they investigate. It'due south eventually revealed that he stole them with help from Sue, his contact at MI5 who he was romantically involved with. However, Douglas planned to betray her. When she found out, she killed him. She so kept working with Elizabeth to try to uncover the location of the diamonds.

(This book picks upward very presently after the previous novel ends with the aforementioned chief characters — Elizabeth, Joyce, Ritchie and Ibrahim — at the Coopers Chase retirement customs.)

In Function I, Elizabeth is revealed to be a sometime MI5 (British intelligence) agent, and she receives a letter from a "Marcus Carmichael", a fictional person whose death she once faked equally function of her piece of work for MI5, request to come across. Elizabeth shows upwardly at the proposed and finds her ex-husband Douglas, there. He's however active in MI5, and he'due south accompanied past his handler, Penny, who is young and inexperienced.

Meanwhile, while Ibrahim is out in boondocks, he gets randomly attacked with his telephone stolen, and he'southward hospitalized. Officers Donna and Chris determine that the perpetrator is Ryan Baird, a local teenager who works with a drug dealer they've been trying to build a example confronting, Connie Johnson. However, at that place'due south insufficient evidence to charge him.

Douglas tells Elizabeth that he needs her help since he stole 20M in diamonds from Martin Lomax, a man who works as a centre-man for various crime organizations (similar drug lords, mafiosos, warlords, etcetera). MI5 doesn't know he stole them. He'southward hiding out in Coopers Chase until he can escape to Antwerp, sell the diamonds and disappear. Douglas wants Elizabeth's help in keeping a await-out for possible threats.

Elizabeth agrees to aid in exchange for information on Ryan Baird, and Poppy shortly gives her the file on him. Shortly after, an intruder tries to shoot Douglas, but Poppy kills the intruder. Sue and Lance from MI5 arrive to make clean up the scene. Poppy is shaken up from killing someone, and Elizabeth and Joyce attempt to comfort her. When Douglas and Poppy are taken to be questioned past Sue and Lance, Joyce finds a notation in her pocket from Poppy asking Joyce to phone call her mother, Siobhan, forth with a phone number. Joyce obliges, tells Siobhan what happened and invites her to tea.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth has a plan regarding Ryan and asks her friend Bogdan to acquire come cocaine. Bogdan does it and hands it off to Ron. Ron then goes to Ryan's house, pretending to be a plumber sent by the housing association. He plants the cocaine and Ibrahim's credit carte du jour in Ryan's toilet then "anonymously" calls Donna and Chris. Ryan Baird is arrested.

By at present, the expressionless intruder has been identified as Andrew Hastings, i of Martin Lomax's lackeys. Likewise, Douglas and Poppy take been relocated to a nearby town. Douglas asks Elizabeth to come see him in that location, and she agrees. Even so, when Elizabeth and Joyce arrive, they find Douglas and Poppy are both dead, having both been shot in the face (making them both barely recognizable).

In Part Two, Elizabeth and Joyce are questioned about the discovery of the bodies. Sue gives Elizabeth a locket inscribed with her proper name that they found on Douglas's body. Siobhan identifies Poppy'due south trunk.

Subsequently, Elizabeth goes to see Martin Lomax who is broken-hearted to get the diamonds back since they're not his. He was property them (as the middle-human) for a bargain between some American mafia guys and some Colombians. If he tin't locate them, they're threatening to kill him by the end of the week. Lomax admits to sending Andrew to scare (merely not kill) Douglas, merely he insists he wasn't responsible for the shootings. Meanwhile, Lance at MI5 flags a fight that Frank Andrade Jr. (American mafia guy who owns the diamonds) is on headed to Fairhaven, probable for the purpose of killing Martin Lomax.

Subsequently, Elizabeth recalls that Douglas had pointed out a hole in a tree, which he'd commented would be a skillful identify for a dead-alphabetic character driblet (a public place spies utilise to get out stuff to be picked upwardly). Sure enough, when Elizabeth checks that spot, she finds a letter addressed to her from Douglas. It says that the diamonds were subconscious in Locker 531 at the Fairhaven train station. If they're yet there by the fourth dimension she reads this letter, information technology means he's dead. If they're gone, it likely means he somehow faked his decease and escaped with the diamonds.

Meanwhile, Chris and Donna have continued to investigate Connie Johnson. Chris has also continued seeing Donna's mother Patrice (who he met towards the finish of Book #ane) romantically. Connie drops by Chris business firm and threatens to hurt Patrice is Chris continues looking into her activities. Additionally, Ryan failed to testify up for his court appointment and is nowhere to be found.

When Elizabeth and Joyce get to the train station, they find an empty fleck bag in Locker 531. Elizabeth uses an infra-carmine light on the pocketbook, and it reveals a subconscious message. It says that this is an extra layer of security, that the diamonds are elsewhere and that Elizabeth should exist able to effigy out where. Elizabeth as well asks Donna to procure the CCTV footage to see if anyone else has visited the locker. They eventually larn that Siobhan (Poppy's female parent) had visited the locker the mean solar day before the shooting.

In Part Iii, Elizabeth figures out where the diamonds are — she notes that there was a mirror in the locket that Douglas had on him and that he'd previously referenced a dead-letter driblet in East Berlin which she knew was really in W Berlin. She figures out that those were hints that Locker 531 was meant to be inversed — and that the diamonds are in Locker 135. Elizabeth and Joyce recover the diamonds and take them home and hide them away.

Elizabeth theorizes that if Siobhan was the ane visiting the locker, then Poppy must've found out well-nigh Douglas stealing the diamonds and gotten Siobhan involved in her scheme. Poppy could've overheard Douglas telling Elizabeth the truth (that he stole them) and then killed him and faked her own death (since Siobhan, her accomplice, was the one who identified her body).

From there, Elizabeth formulates a plan to get some answers. She plans a meeting with Martin Lomax at the pier saying she'll requite him the diamonds there. Then, when Frank Andrade lands in Fairhaven, she intercepts him and instructs him to attend the meeting equally well if he wants his diamonds dorsum. (Her plan is to force Poppy to come out into the open when Poppy realizes the diamonds have resurfaced and that this large meeting is taking place.)

Every bit for Connie, they (Ron and Bogdan) invite Connie to attend the coming together telling her that it's an opportunity for her aggrandize her drug merchandise. So, they tell Connie to bring Ryan Baird with her to drive her to meeting (challenge that he's someone they trust). Connie knows where Ryan is, so she agrees. (The thought is that by involving Connie and Ryan, it'll implicate them in an illicit bargain, and they'll exist conveniently present to exist arrested.)

When the big meeting arrives, Frank, Martin and Connie meet upward (with Bogdan and Lance in the room, also, and anybody else is safely outside). Frank gets upset when he realizes his diamonds aren't in that location, and he shoots Martin. Connie so shoots Frank earlier he tin can shoot her. She then tries to exit, only is promptly arrested by Chris and Donna (who were waiting outside). Ryan is also arrested. Poppy does not bear witness up.

Afterwards, Elizabeth and Joyce are in a car with Sue, and Elizabeth now confronts Sue most being the real killer. Later on Poppy failed to announced, Elizabeth figured out that things were less complicated than they seemed and at that place were no faked deaths. Poppy and Douglas are both dead. Instead, Elizabeth realizes that Sue must've been the one to put the note in Joyce'due south pocket about Siobhan, not Poppy. Sue purposely wanted them to think "Siobhan" was Poppy's mother (to ready them on a false trail of investigating Poppy), when in reality "Siobhan" was really Sue's cohort.

Sue admits that she and Douglas planned to steal the diamonds together since they were romantically involved. Poppy later overheard Douglas telling Elizabeth about the diamonds and hinting at the dead-alphabetic character drop. Poppy then found the letter to Elizabeth (in the hole in the tree) and obediently told Sue about information technology. Sue read the letter of the alphabet and realized that Douglas planned to beguile her, so she told Martin where Douglas was. When the guy Martin sent failed to impale Douglas, Sue did the job herself and shot Douglas (and killed Poppy in the process).

In nowadays mean solar day, Sue tells Elizabeth that she has three armed dudes working for her and they've located the diamonds at Joyce's house. Sue has the driver accept them to Joyce'south — but every bit before long as they arrive, Sue is shot past Bogdan. (It's soon revealed that Bogdan incapacitated the three armed dudes and told them to tell Sue that they'd found the diamonds.)

In the final capacity, Chris tells Patrice that he loves her, Bogdan decides to ask out Donna and Joyce adopts a dog named Rusty. The book closes by revealing that Elizabeth ended upwards fencing the diamonds in Antwerp and then donating the money to an organisation called Living with Dementia (considering her husband Stephen has dementia).

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Part I: Your Friends Are Certain to Visit
Part II: At Times, You Won't Believe Your Optics
Role Three: So Many Day Trips for You to Enjoy

Part I: Your Friends Are Sure to Visit

Chapter 1

(This volume picks upward very soon afterward the previous novel ends.)

At the meeting of the The Thursday Murder Club, they (Elizabeth Best, Joyce Meadowcroft, Ron Ritchie and Ibrahim Arif) finish discussing a common cold instance and start discussing whether Joyce should get a domestic dog. The too annotate on how the newest member of the Ruskin Court serving staff, Poppy, is not corking at her job.

Equally they chat, Elizabeth thinks nigh a letter of the alphabet from Marcus Carmichael that had been slipped under her door. In information technology, he said was moving into the Coopers Hunt retirement community and that he wanted to grab a drink to catch up. The letter had been jarring since she'd been under the impression that Marcus was expressionless.

The last time Elizabeth (who previously worked for MI5) saw Marcus was in November 1981. She'd been on an consignment which involved loading up a drowned man onto a van to be taken to the morgue. She remembers sitting in the van with a doctor who had a distinctive mustache. Marcus has been the drowned man in that scenario.

Chapter 2

Meanwhile, PC Donna De Freitas and DCI Chris Hudson are on a stake-out, keeping an eye on Connie Johnson, the "friendly local drug dealer" who took over the drug trade effectually here from the two Antonio brothers who went missing a year ago. Information technology'due south unclear whether Connie had something to do with their disappearance, hence the stake-out. Their squad is too trying to collect plenty evidence to take downward the whole functioning.

As they expect, a adult female in a yellow jacket comes out, introduces herself every bit Connie Johnson and offers them some coffee and sausage rolls. She also gives them some photographs, letting them know that her people are watching them equally well.

Chapters 3 – 6

Elizabeth arrives to come across with Marcus, not knowing what to expect. She finds Douglas Middlemiss there, her ex-married man before Stephen, who works for MI5. Douglas knew well-nigh Marcus, and she understands that he used the name to become her attention. In fact, Marcus Carmichael never really existed. He was a false identity used laissez passer secrets to the Russians, and when "he" outlived his usefulness, his "death" was staged using a cadaver.

Douglas then brings out Poppy, who he says is really at that place as his handler. He says they need her aid with a man named Martin Lomax, who they believe is involved in international coin laundering for major crime organizations. He works as an intermediary between these gangs, and he has a big house with a strong room that he uses to hold valuables for these illicit deals.

Meanwhile, Joyce has recently gotten into knitting and recently fabricated friendship bracelets for Elizabeth and Bogdan Jankowski, which she's selling with the proceeds going to charity. Ron is excited because his grandson Kendrick is coming for a visit before long. And Ibrahim has decided he needs to get out and explore life exterior of Coopers Chase more. However, equally Ibrahim out and about, a bicyclist rides by and steals his telephone, knocks him over and kicks him in the head, seriously injuring him.

Chapters 7 – viii

DCI Chris Hudson has recently started seeing Donna'due south mother, Patrice (who he was introduced to towards the end of the previous book). He gets a telephone call from Donna maxim that Ibrahim is in the hospital.

Soon subsequently, the whole group is gathered at the hospital, where Ibrahim is witting but weak. Ibrahim provides a detailed description of the 3 assailants. He notes that the one who kicked him was referred to as "Ryan".

Afterwards, Chris and Donna discuss how they're sure "Ryan" is someone they've dealt with before, Ryan Baird . Unfortunately, in that location's no CCTV where the incident occurred, so they can question him simply he'll likely go abroad with it. Still, Elizabeth thinks there's maybe something she can do.

Chapter ix – 10

The next day, Elizabeth meets with Douglas and Poppy again. Douglas explains that not too long agone, he and another guy (Lance James) broke into Martin Lomax's firm to scope it out, with Poppy acting as a lookout. Nonetheless, Martin found out it was him since he momentarily took his mask off and was captured on CCTV.

Moreover, Martin claims that 20 million in uncut diamonds went missing during their visit. The diamonds were function of a deal involving a Colombian drug ring and the New York mafia. Now, Martin plans on telling the Colombians and the Americans that Douglas has the diamonds if he doesn't return them.

Now, Douglas is at Coopers Hunt hiding out, and he wants Elizabeth's aid to keep an eye on potential threats. Privately, to Elizabeth, he admits that he did, in fact, have the diamonds. He just needs enough time to get to Antwerp where he can sell them. Elizabeth considers momentarily and and then agrees to help him.

In exchange, she says she wants information on Ryan Baird, a teenager who lives in Fairhaven.

Chapters eleven – fourteen

Elsewhere, Martin Lomax is beingness interviewed by a woman from the Sunday Telegraph for possible inclusion in their "Britain'southward Best Gardens" supplement.

At the hospital, Elizabeth meets with Ron, Joyce and Ibrahim to discuss the state of affairs with Douglas and how they'll be getting information on Ryan Baird in exchange. They agree to help out, though they decide they also demand to discover out more about Martin Lomax.

At the police station, Chris and Donna interrogate Ryan Baird. Ryan says very lilliputian, and they allow him go since they're unable to charge him.

A brusque while later, Poppy sits downwards with Elizabeth and Joyce to conversation, telling them how she doesn't actually like this job and would rather be writing poetry. Elizabeth shares that if she hadn't joined the service, then she would have liked to become a marine biologist. Poppy gives them the file on Ryan Baird.

Chapters 15 – 17

That night, Douglas is in bed when he hears the sound of his door beingness quietly opened. He hides in the wardrobe, and sees a human walk in with a gun. The homo finds him and asks, with an English accent, where the diamonds are. Douglas refuses to say, and the human begins to pull the trigger.

At the hospital, Ibrahim has mixed feelings nigh whether he wants revenge on Ryan Baird for the attack. He thinks about how, in principle, he doesn't believe in seeking revenge. He considers how a client of his, Eric Mason, had gone down a dark road trying to seek revenge until finally going to meet Ibrahim (a former psychotherapist). Intellectually, he realizes that forgiveness is the best class. At the same time, Ibrahim is angry that Ryan robbed him of his sense of security and thinks of the thrill that getting revenge would provide.

At 2:00 AM, Elizabeth calls Joyce over to Douglas's unit. Douglas is live, since Poppy had shot the assassinator before he'd been able to impale Douglas. Poppy is at present very visibly shaken and weep, saying that this isn't the job she wants. Soon, Sue Reardonand Lance James from M15 evidence up and have charge. Some men dressed in black come to zip the body upwards in a body purse and conduct it out. Poppy gives Elizabeth and Joyce a hug before she leaves with Sue and Lance.

Afterwards Poppy has left, Joyce finds a slip of paper that says "Band MY MUM" plus a telephone number in her pocket, which presumably Poppy had slipped in there.

Affiliate 18

Ryan Baird, 18, makes his money selling stolen adept to Connie Johnson, and Connie sometimes gives him packages to deliver, too. This evening, Ryan is at dwelling house playing videogames, ignoring the doorbell ringing which he assumes are complaining neighbors.

That dark, Martin Lomax gets a call from MI5. They want to know if someone named Andrew Hastings was working for him this evening. Martin answers that Andrew works for him, but not this night. They let him know that Hasting has been killed while trying to murder a member of the British Security Services.

In a house near Godalming, Poppy and Douglas are being questioned nearly the dark'south events in split up rooms. Poppy gets released, but she tin however hear them questioning Douglas as she leaves.

Chapters 19 – 20

The next morn in Ruskin Courtroom, Elizabeth updates Ron and gives him the folder with Ryan Baird's information. She besides says that Douglas is existence moved to another location, then this no longer involves them.

Right before they leave Ruskin Court, Bogdan notices a man with gloves that he doesn't recognize get out of a van and enter Ruskin Court, but Elizabeth lets him know not to heed the van and that the man is a MI5 risk-cess underwriter. Instead, Bogdan heads to Elizabeth's place to play chess with her married man, Stephen, equally he frequently does.

Elizabeth then brings out a tote bag full of cash, and she asks Bogdan to assist her acquire 10,000£ in cocaine.

Chapters 21 – 22

Douglas and Poppy accept now been relocated to Hove, near the sea. He thinks about how the diamonds are his escape from this life. He also wonders who could've told Martin Lomax about him being in Coopers Hunt. He decides he can trust no one, apart from Elizabeth. Despite the many affairs he had during their marriage, all of which she discovered, he still trusts her.

Meanwhile, Joyce calls Poppy's mother, Siobhan. Joyce tells her what happened, and Siobhan is taken ashamed, since she'd previously believed that Poppy worked for the Passport Office. Joyce as well invites Siobhan to have tea with her and Elizabeth, and she gets Siobhan's address so that she can ship her a friendship bracelet.

Chapters 23 – thirty

The next day, Ibrahim is well plenty to render to Coopers Chase and goes in for a hair appointment before alerting the others that he'south dorsum. When he goes to pay, he sees his credit card is missing.

Around the same time, Bodgan contacts Connie (who once asked him out, but he declined) to make the buy of cocaine. He then goes to the pier to meets Ron, who is dressed equally a plumber and easily information technology off. Ron then goes to Ryan Baird's place, claiming he was sent by the Housing Association to check the water pressure level. He places the kilo of cocaine in Ryan's toilet cistern along with Ibrahim'south credit carte du jour. He and then leaves and calls Donna to report that he'southward an anonymous plumber who has found cocaine in someone's toilet.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Joyce head to Hove to see Douglas and Poppy. As they caput over, Joyce admits to Elizabeth that she chosen Poppy's mother. As they well-nigh the house, Elizabeth gets a central from someone in a Virgin Media van (a lookout). Equally Joyce and Elizabeth enter the safehouse, Elizabeth notes that it's oddly quiet and the back door is open up. Elizabeth then grabs a knife and heads upstairs without Joyce.

In one of the bedrooms, she finds the dead bodies of both Douglas and Poppy, both with gun wounds to the face. Elizabeth speedily photographs the scene. Elizabeth steps exterior to alert the van driver of the situation. She then hides her phone behind a loose brick nearby since she knows it'll be confiscated when they question her.

Part Ii: At Times, Yous Won't Believe Your Optics

Chapters 31 – 33

In the evening, Chris gets a phone call from Donna that Ryan Baird has been arrested for possession with intent to supply (because of the cocaine) too as robbery (considering of the discovery of Ibrahim'southward credit card). Chris and Donna are well enlightened that the Thursday Murder Gild has ready Ryan upward, simply they feel confident the truth won't come out.

In Godalming, Elizabeth and Joyce are existence questioned by Sue and Lance about the discovery of the bodies. Elizabeth admits to them that Douglas had told her almost stealing the diamonds. They testify her a locket that Douglas had on him when he died which is inscribed with Elizabeth's name. They also ask her for her phone, and they say they'll accept to search her flat if she doesn't voluntarily produce it.

Right later Elizabeth and Joyce leave, Siobhan arrives to identify her daughter's body. Md Carter shows her the body, and Siobhan confirms that it'due south Poppy. She points out the identifying marks such as a scar Poppy has and a tattoo she had of a Daisy (because her grandmother's name was Daisy).

Chapters 34 – 37

The next morn, back at her apartment which MI5 has finished searching, Elizabeth looks at the locket which she is surprised that Sue permit her keep. She searches it for any subconscious letters, but can't find anything. Bogdan is likewise there since Elizabeth had asked him to brand sure Stephen was okay last night equally MI5 checked her apartment.

Elizabeth asks Bogdan to go pick up her telephone from behind the loose brick and to drive her to go run into Martin Lomax later today, and he agrees. Elizabeth then calls Chris to meet upwards tomorrow to hash out the situation. Chris declines at beginning because he has plans with Patrice, but Elizabeth convinces Patrice to cancel their plans and come up along instead.

In Hambledon, Martin Lomax at home when he calls the Americans to discuss their missing diamonds. They say that if they don't take the diamonds by the end of adjacent week, then they'll kill him. Around the same time, Bogdan is driving Ron, Elizabeth and Joyce over to Martin's house. When they arrive, they pretend to be there to savour his gardens at start, but Elizabeth then asks him about the deaths of Poppy and Douglas.

Elizabeth tells Martin that they're his best bet to go his diamonds back. At that point, Martin becomes more helpful. He admits that he threatened Douglas and that he sent Andrew Hastings to scare, but not kill, Douglas. He learned where Douglas was from someone in MI5. Lomax hadn't, all the same, been able to learn the second location, and then those two killings were ordered by someone else.

Before they leave, Elizabeth and Lomax concord that they have a shared involvement in finding the killer, and she offers him her contact information. Joyce also sells Lomax a friendship bracelet (with Elizabeth insisting that she won't leave until he buys ane). Lomax also reminds them that he has no problem killing all of them if he suspects they are keeping his diamonds from him.

Chapters 38 – 39

That night, Elizabeth invites Sue to have dinner with them, and Ibrahim joins them as well. Over some pizza, Elizabeth tells Sue that she doesn't think Lomax was responsible for the killings.

Moreover, she says that Douglas was ever a planner, and she thinks that he meant for her to run into his expressionless body when he asked her to come over. However, she suspects the body may have looked like it was him (the face was blown to bits past the gunshot), but perhaps Douglas faked it and escaped with the diamonds. Sue says that they did a DNA test and it matched, just Elizabeth points out that someone could accept establish a fashion to simulated a DNA test to forcefulness information technology to match.

After Sue leaves, Elizabeth says that she has a hunch that Douglas did reveal the location of the diamonds to her, and the Th Murder Club proceeds to head out into the woods to test out her theory. They head to a big tree with a hole in it, which Elizabeth and Douglas had stopped at the day he told her virtually the diamonds. Elizabeth recalls that he had commented that it would make a good "expressionless-letter driblet" (a public place that others are unlikely to come up across where spies leave stuff).

In the pigsty, they find a letter from Douglas. He explains how he needed a way out of this mess, and he doesn't know if he'll get away with this. He also says that the diamonds are in Locker 531 at Fairhaven railroad train station. He tells Elizabeth that if she goes looking for them and finds the diamonds, that ways he's dead. If she goes looking and they're no longer there, it means he probably got away with it and is on his style to Antwerp to meet Franco (a fence) and exchange them for cash.

The side by side morning, Elizabeth and Joyce caput onto the mini-double-decker to become to the Fairhaven train station.

Capacity 40

Meanwhile, Lance James, 42, is at work mulling over his financial troubles. He's living in an apartment he can't afford since he originally bought it with an ex-girlfriend, except they've broken up and he doesn't have the money to buy her out. Instead, he's stuck paying her rent.

Lance notices a flight for "Andre Richardson" that's been flagged. "Andre Richardson"'s existent name is Frank Andrade Jr., and he's the owner of the missing diamonds. He'south flying from New Jersey into the airfield in Farnborough, which is near Martin Lomax's home.

Lance suggests that he go there for week to check out the state of affairs, and Sue agrees it's a good idea. Privately, Lance wonders if he tin can somehow cease upward with the diamonds and end his financial troubles.

Capacity 41 – 43

Ron has simply picked up his grandson Kendrick and is showing him around Coopers Chase. He'due south watching the boy since Ron's girl, Suzi, is at a conference in the Caribbean since she works in travel. Suzi's husband Daniel is joining her, besides.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Joyce arrive at the train station and locate Locker 531. The lock is damaged, but they become it open. The diamonds are gone. There'south an empty chip bag in the locker instead. They pocket the pocketbook and head out. They walk over to the police force station where they meet Donna. Donna has an infra-blood-red light which they utilize on the chip purse and a written message appears. It says that the chip bag is an "extra layer of security" and that the diamonds are elsewhere. Information technology as well indicates that Elizabeth should be able to effigy out where to observe them.

As they discuss, Joyce brings upward how information technology's suspicious that the lock was damaged. Donna agrees to procure the CCTV for the locker room for the past week so that Ibrahim can review it to come across if anything suspicious appears.

Chapters 44 – 46

Later on that 24-hour interval, the Thursday Murder Lodge meets up with Donna, Patrice and Chris. They tell them virtually what happened with Douglas and Poppy, and Elizabeth shows them the photos of the criminal offense scene. They're interrupted by Siobhan who is looking for Joyce and Elizabeth after identifying Poppy'south body. She's now staying in Joyce's spare room.

Subsequently that nighttime, Stephen who (because of his dementia) is worked over a bad review of his book that was written many years ago. It takes a long time for Elizabeth to at-home him down. Later on, Elizabeth reviews Douglas's letter (the one they constitute in the hole) again and to try to suss out where the diamonds might exist.

Chapters 47 – 50

The next morning, Ron and Ibrahim are playing with Kendrick when Ron notices Siobhan walking by. He thinks about how attractive she is. That night, Donna and DCI Jordan/Jayden (she's not sure which) stake out Connie Johnson's place. Jordan/Jayden is from London, and he'southward convinced that the London police is much more capable than that of Fairhaven. Meanwhile, Patrice left earlier that solar day to return to south London since the school twelvemonth is starting back up once more, and Chris feels alone without her.

Late in the day, Connie Johnson shows up at Chris's house. Chris rapidly letters Donna to permit her know. Connie lets Chris know that she finds their poking around her business rather intrusive and that her patience for them is waning. She also hints that something might happen to Patrice if Chris fails to heed her alert. Subsequently Connie leaves, Donna calls to ask what happened, and Chris doesn't mention the threat against Patrice.

Chapters 51 – 54

Lance and Sue go to visit Martin Lomax. They assure him that they don't have the diamonds. Martin explains that he really needs to diamonds since he doesn't have the assets to pay the Colombians and Americans for them.

Meanwhile, In Ibrahim's room, he and Kendrick look over the CCTV footage. Ibrahim instructs Kendrick to look out for anyone messing with Locker 531. In the video for the day before Douglas and Poppy were murdered, they see a figure in a motorcycle helmet visit the locker, they see the chip handbag and toss it back in. As to who it is, they know the person tin't exist Douglas since he was in protective custody at the time and he was the one person who knew the locker didn't have the diamonds (since he'd intentionally stored them elsewhere).

When the whole gang gathers to view the footage, Kendrick points out that they have a clue — the person in the video is wearing 1 of Joyce'due south friendship bracelets. They so make a listing of everyone with a friendship bracelet: Sue, Lance, Siobhan, Martin Lomax, as well as diverse others from around Coopers Chase.

Joyce then gets the thought to go talk to the receptionist for the train station locker rooms. The receptionist confirms that anyone entering the lockers with a helmet would have had to take it off at some point to identify themselves. Elizabeth then contacts Donna to inquire for more CCTV footage.

Capacity 55 – lx

Chris is at Maidstone Crown Court where Ryan Baird is to be tried. Ron and Bogdan are with him, and as they wait to hear the verdict, he asks for their help in dealing with Connie, since he's worried that something might happen to Patrice. After some waiting, they see Ryan'due south lawyer who tells them that Ryan didn't show upwards, his telephone is disconnected and that he's nowhere to exist institute.

Meanwhile, at Le Pont Noir, Elizabeth meets with Sue to try to go ideas on what clues Douglas'southward letter might exist hiding.

Back at Coopers Chase, Donna arrives with the footage, but she goes to see Ibrahim first since she needs someone to talk to. She says that she's unhappy. At some signal, all her friends left or moved on. The two master people in her life, her mom and Chris, are sleeping with each other. Meanwhile, she spends too much time hanging out with a punch of pensioners. She'south upset that she no longer knows anyone that's her age. Ibrahim reminds her that having ups and downs in life is natural, but the important affair is to attempt to keep getting back up.

When Donna and Ibrahim view the video, they are surprised to observe the person in the motorbike is Siobhan.

Capacity 61 – 63

By now, Ryan is at his cousin Steven'south identify in Scotland, and he's decided to go by "Kirk" now since his name is on the news for beingness on the run.

Meanwhile, the whole grouping (Thursday Murder Guild, plus Chris and Donna) is soon gathered near the natural lake in Coopers Chase. Ibrahim plays the CCTV footage on his tablet and they run across that Siobhan is the one at Locker 531. They discuss what they recollect may have happened. Joyce realizes that Poppy was wearing headphones the day that Douglas told Elizabeth most the diamonds, so she may take establish a style to listen in on their chat. Poppy then must've found the letter and told Siobhan about the locker.

Elizabeth so theorizes that when Siobhan concluded upward finding nothing, Poppy must have confronted Douglas, killed him and faked her own death. Siobhan was the one who identified Poppy'south body, and ultimately they know very picayune near Poppy or Siobhan.

Role III: So Many Day Trips for You lot to Enjoy

Chapters 64 – 67

The group takes a trip to Antwerp to see Franco, who works equally a diamond dealer. Franco says he got a from Douglas a month agone, but hasn't seen or heard from him since. Elizabeth asks if anyone had tried to sell 20 million in diamonds, and he also says no. Back at Coopers Chase, the grouping continues to conjecture about what could have happened with Poppy and Douglas. (Privately, Joyce continues to doubt that Poppy was secretly a cold-blooded killer.)

At Martin's place, Lance and Martin chat about Frank Andrade'south pending arrival on Monday. Lance has been assigned to stake out Martin's place, only since Martin never leaves anyway, they've ended up just hanging out there. Martin hopes that they'll find the diamonds before then so he won't be killed, but Lance knows that even if he or Elizabeth found them, Martin wouldn't exist the one to become them. He thinks about how no matter what, "Martin Lomax is a dead human being".

The side by side morning, Elizabeth and Joyce head to Fairhaven. At the train station, Elizabeth tells Joyce that she figured out what the locket was for — inside is a cheap mirror meant to let her know to opposite the numbers of the locker number. Douglas had hinted at it when he mentioned a dead-letter drib in E Berlin, except that information technology had really been in Due west Berlin. Elizabeth had idea it was a fault at first, merely it was a clue.

In Locker 135, they open it up to find the diamonds and a letter of the alphabet. In the letter of the alphabet, Douglas congratulates Elizabeth on finding the diamonds, but he also says that if she finds this alphabetic character then it means that he is expressionless.

Chapters 68 – 70

Elizabeth soon gathers everyone (the Thursday Murder Guild, plus Donna and Chris). She tells them that she has the diamonds and she plans to meet with Martin Lomax also as Frank Andrade (the mafia guy) tomorrow. She asks Donna and Chris to be nearby when it happens. They programme for the meeting to have identify nigh the pier in Fairhaven. They doubtable that Poppy will show up and then since if she's live, she'due south probably all the same waiting for the diamonds to materialize. Elizabeth thinks that once everyone is together, it'll become clear what exactly happened regarding Douglas and Poppy.

Ron also suggests that they involve Connie Johnson, and then Donna and Chris can use the opportunity to get something solid on her to utilise to arrest her. They're going to convince her that the Thursday Murder Club is a gang from London that'southward tipping her off on a big deal going downwards.

Meanwhile, Joyce has managed to track down Ryan Baird. In the file on him, there'due south a list of his known family members and friends, and Joyce had the idea to wait them up on Instagram and tracked down his cousin Steven Baird in Scotland. Joyce tells Chris and Donna about her discovery, simply she also tells them that she has a plan regarding Ryan.

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Soon, Bogdan and Ron (pretending to exist "Vic Vincent", a London gangster) prove up at Connie's place asking her to participate in a deal. Ron claims that he (as Vic Vincent) has bad blood with Frank Andrade, only he needs someone trustworthy to practice a trade with Frank — some diamonds in exchange for cash. He says that Bogdan recommended her for the job. As for what's in it for Connie, they say she'll be able to do a drug deal worth 50K with the potential for more than if things get smoothly.

Connie agrees to participate. Ron also asks her to bring in Ryan Baird to serve as their driver, letting her know that he'south in Scotland (Ron lies and says that Ryan is family and that he trusts him, but in reality they want to implicate him in this, as well).

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The next 24-hour interval, at Farnborough airport, Joyce and Elizabeth intercept Frank Andrade as he comes off the plane. They tell them that if he wants his diamonds that he should come with them. They tell him that they'll accept him to meet Martin Lomax and one time things are worked out betwixt them, he'll get the diamonds.

When the coming together time arrives, all the various parties (Martin, Lance, Frank and Connie with Bogdan) show upwardly and they encounter in a small part on the pier. Donna and Chris are exterior, while Elizabeth and Joyce sit down in an MI5 van listening in with Sue. Ryan Baird collection Connie, and so he'southward parked in a car outside waiting likewise.

As they go downwards to business organisation, Frank asks to see the diamonds. Connie reveals what she has, only information technology turns out the Elizabeth only gave her a tiny fraction of the diamonds. Frank gets upset and pulls out a gun. Every bit confusion sets in between the parties about what is going on, Frank goes ahead and shoots Martin in the chest, and Martin falls over. Before Frank can shoot Connie, Connie shoots Frank, and he slumps over equally well. Connie and then kisses Bogdan (who she has a crush on) and runs out of the room.

Connie rushes into the Range Rover that Ryan drove her hither in. Yet, she finds DCI Chris Hudson inside, and he promptly arrests her. Ryan has also been arrested.

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Subsequently the mayhem, Elizabeth thinks about how things concluded up being exactly as they seemed. Neither Douglas or Poppy had suddenly materialized as a upshot of the mafia/Martin coming together, and at present she and Joyce are headed to the morgue to have a look at the bodies.

Elizabeth and Joyce are now sitting in a car with Sue, who Elizabeth is at present sure was the existent killer. Joyce is recording their chat, equally Elizabeth had instructed her to do. Elizabeth then confronts Sue about being the one who shot Douglas and Poppy. Elizabeth tells Sue that she finally pieced together that Sue had been then ane to put the note in Poppy's pocket most containing Siobhan.

When Sue's phone rings, she informs Elizabeth that the diamonds have been located (Elizabeth and Joyce had hidden them at Joyce's identify), and their car is going to head there instead to pick up the diamonds. Elizabeth is surprised that Sue managed to locate the diamonds, and she wonders if someone told Sue nigh their location.

As they drive over, Elizabeth talks well-nigh what must've really happened. She theorizes that Sue and Douglas were lovers and planned the plot to steal the diamonds and sell them together (Douglas hid the diamonds somewhere and Sue didn't know where). When Poppy subsequently plant out about the letter that Douglas had planted, she obediently informed Sue of that discovery. However, in the letter, Douglas had written to Elizabeth about how he still loved her and would expect for her, and Sue realized that Douglas planned to beguile her. Sue then decided Douglas needed to dice. She informed Martin of where Douglas was, and he sent Andrew Hasting to kill Douglas. Only Poppy killed Andrew. So, Sue decided to just do the job herself.

Sue admits that Elizabeth'south theory is correct. Sue also acknowledges that Siobhan was working for her, which is why she dropped the notation in Joyce's pocket near contacting her. She wanted them to think Siobhan was Poppy's mother since she knew Elizabeth would eventually find the CCTV of her at the lockers and it would set up them on a false trail (of thinking Poppy had engineered this scheme). Sue and then began working with Elizabeth to detect the location of the diamonds since she needed help in locating where they actually were. Sue likewise says that now that the diamonds take been found, it doesn't matter if Sue is revealed as the killer or not since she'll exist gone either fashion.

In nowadays 24-hour interval, the automobile arrives at Coopers Chase, and Sue (gun in manus) orders Elizabeth and Joyce to head into Joyce'southward house. She warns them that she has 3 armed men waiting for them there. However, when they arrive at the firm, Bogdan is there instead. He shoots Sue.

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Presently, they are all — Elizabeth, Joyce, Bogdan, Stephen, Siobhan, and an injured Sue — situated at Elizabeth'southward place.

Stephen and Bogdan then explain what happened. Sue'south three armed men and Siobhan had shown upwards demanding to know where the diamonds were. Every bit they were hassling Stephen, Bogdan had shown up and offered to show them where the diamonds were. Every bit they headed to Joyce'south place, Bogdan had taken the three men out. He'd then instructed Siobhan to tell Sue that the diamonds had been located at Joyce's place. Then, he'd gone over to Joyce's place to wait for Sue to bear witness upwardly.

Once that explanation is washed, Elizabeth and so asks Siobhan who she actually is. Siobhan says that her really name is "Sally Montague", and Elizabeth remembers the name as ane of Douglas's exes (as were Sue and Elizabeth).

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Elsewhere, Patrice is at home grading homework when she hears a knock on her door. She answers it and finds Chris in that location, who tells her that he wanted to tell her that he'south in dearest with her.

At Ibrahim's house, Joyce goes to meet him, knowing that he's been hesitant to leave his firm ever since the attack. Joyce tries to coax him out. Ibrahim says too scared of existence outside, but ultimately Joyce is able to convince him to bulldoze her to the brute adoption centre since she'south in the market to adopt a domestic dog. Joyce ends up with a dog she names Rusty.

At Elizabeth'due south place, Bogdan and Stephen play chess, and Bogdan tells Stephen that he'due south thinking almost asking Donna out on a appointment. Shortly after, Elizabeth gets dorsum from a trip to Antwerp to encounter Franco.

Meanwhile, the group finds out that Poppy'due south mother really is named Siobhan, though it's a dissimilar woman than the i they met, obviously. They all plan on attending Poppy's funeral next week.

Lance ended upwardly dealing with the crime scene at the pier and pocketed the two small diamonds. After selling them for 35K, he'd been able to buy his ex out of their flat for 25K. With the remaining 10K, Lance plans to become a hair transplant.

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The volume ends with a chapter following Sylvia Finch, who began working for an organization called Living with Dementia afterward they helped her late husband Dennis while he was still live. She checks the organization's banking concern business relationship and and so gain to ask the leadership board if anyone knows why they've received a 20M donation from Antwerp.

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