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MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 1 & 2

Here is what happened one Monday in the month of September, in the last year of the last century.

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 3 & 4

During English, Ms. Humphreys gave them fifteen minutes to answer the questions she’d written on the board

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 5 & 6

He had worried he might not recognize the gate, one among many, but a loop of yellow police tape hung

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 7 & 8

“Will you make us a sign?” he said. “We’ll pay you the going rate.” He had been pleased when the idea came

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 9 & 10

When her mother announced that the detective was coming back to talk to them, her first thought was that

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 11 & 12

Last May, a few weeks after the man appeared in the churchyard, she had started going out with Luke

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 13 & 14

With its original gold lettering, MacLeod & Son, above the door and its black-and-white-tiled entrance

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 15 & 16

As she left the bus station, Zoe could picture the woman in her black T-shirt, with her wide smile and tangled

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MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 17 & 18

She had not planned to look for the American but, day after day, there he was in the middle of biology or Latin

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 19 & 20

When she got home from the butcher’s, her mother was circling the ficus with a watering can. Without looking up

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 21 & 22

He watched his fingers playing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and tried to ignore the telephone directories

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 23 & 24

Before he could protest—he was doing his homework—Zoe had crossed the room and was standing beside his desk

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 25 & 26

In the cloakroom they started talking about the millennium. Heather’s mother, an accountant, claimed that

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 27 & 28

When he saw the postcard of Big Ben by his plate, his first thought was: She found me. Somehow his first mother

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 29 & 30

She answered the door, expecting someone collecting for charity or leafleting for a good cause, and discovered

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MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 31 & 32

"Give me a minute, Ms. Lang,” said the porter. “I think he left a message for you.” In the background she heard

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 33 & 34

Five in the afternoon, already dark. He was at the middle till, handing a girl a one-pound coin and two

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 35 & 36

Through the window of the bus he watched the sun, glowing palely above the leafless branches of the elms

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 37 & 38

Somehow, he had thought, once they caught the man, he would be able to talk to him. But that was absurd.

MEMBERS ONLY MEMBERS ONLY Chapters 39 & 40

The Salon of Second Chances was held on the penultimate day of the twentieth century, from four

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