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" to go back to?’ Paula said nothing to that, thinking of her sparse flat overlooking the sluggish river, long evenings in front of DVDs with just her case-notes, the pull of the tide outside her flat. ‘I don’t know. I haven’t decided.’ ‘Right. Listen, Paula . . .’ He paused. ‘There’s something else. I wondered for a long time should I tell you this. I mean, you’ve had such a rough time of it.’ ‘I’m OK. What is it?’ She braced herself for more awful revelations about the Mission, about Maddy, now sectioned and suicidal again, about the McGreavy family. But nothing prepared her for what he said next. ‘As you know, one of the old files we were given was your mother’s.’ ‘Oh.’ She blinked. ‘There won’t be anything there. It was all picked over many times.’ ‘But that’s the thing. This man who’s getting out of prison – Sean Conlon – the one who most likely killed John O’Hara, well, he’s been hinting he knows other things. "
― Claire McGowan , The Lost (Paula McGuire, #1)