61 pages 2 hours read

Karin Slaughter

This Is Why We Lied

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Chapters 18-23Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 18 Summary

Will calls Faith to come down to the equipment shed: He wants her to interrogate Christopher. Christopher is looking at serious prison time for the bootlegging alone, not to mention Chuck and Mercy’s murders. Faith tells him that Dave checked himself out of the hospital and returned to the lodge, so everyone now knows that Dave isn’t Mercy’s killer.

Before Faith goes to the equipment shed, she and Sara go over their notes together. Faith tells Sara about her plan to use Mercy’s calls to triangulate her location. They also have the three screams, the “howl,” “Help,” and “Please,” and the directions Sara and Will heard them from. Sara reminds Faith that she was with Jon at the lodge during the second and third screams and that when she first saw him, he was seen coming out of the lodge with a backpack before falling to his knees and vomiting. Faith rules Jon out as a suspect, and Sara is surprised that he ever was a suspect.

Will leaves Christopher cuffed to a canoe and returns to their cottage. Will, Sara, and Faith theorize about Christopher being the killer. Sara goes to talk to Jon again, while Will and Faith head to the equipment shed to interrogate Christopher.

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