Tell No One 3 - The End (Pages 200 - end)

 RATING: GOOD

SPOILERS!!!

This was a very intense thriller, but I have to say that it became a bit confusing and weak at the end.

This last part starts when Beck gets to Washington Square where he expects to see Elizabeth, but the bad guys are watching and from her position the woman we believe is Elizabeth spots them and decides to go. After waiting long, Beck realises that Elizabeth won't show up, so he goes. However, a van stops by his side and before he knows what is happening two men drag him inside. Thankfully, Tyrese and his friend Brutus appear and save him. Yet, Wu escapes.

Tyrese takes him to a safe place, and from there Beck gets to call Shauna and tells her that he is fine. It is that evening when Shauna is with Linda that the latter confesses that she took the photographs that the FBI found in the safety deposit box. Elizabeth swore her to secrecy, and Linda says that Jason Spoke had beaten up because she had found out that he was involved in prostitution and drugs, and the beating was a warning. 

Agent Stoner starts having doubts about Beck's guilt because everything seems too neat. He goes to talk to Shauna, who reluctantly talks to him. He tells him that Beck wanted to see Elizabeth's postmortem, and Shauna tells him to show her. There are no photographs as they seem to have been stolen. However, from the report Shauna can tell that this is not Elizabeth. First, the report shows that the woman was a regular consumer of cocaine, but what clinches the truth is that the height and weight differ significantly from what Elizabeth looked like.

Hester, Beck's lawyer, talks to the district attorney and makes him see that Beck has been the victim of injustice, and the attorney agrees to withdraw the charges, and Beck will cooperate. Beck finally gets to see his wife. Actually, Shauna sees her first when Elizabeth hides in the bathroom of the office, and she asks Shauna to tell Beck 'dolphin'. Dolphin is an old hut in the camp, and Beck doesn't waste time. On the train he happens to find a newspaper, and there is an article about him. When he reads the article, he is shocked when he reads one of the names of the men found near the camp. He remembers the name as the only witness of his father's deadly accident, and he knows that his father's death was not accidental at all. 

In the hut he is met by a shabby-looked man. This is Jeremiah Renway, a man who has been hiding in the woods for decades after he committed a crime at university. Jeremiah tells him that it was him who saved his life when he was attacked at the lake, and it was him who called the police. Elizabeth and Beck finally meet after eight years, and she tells him that she had to leave because otherwise, he would have been killed by Griffin's thugs. 

Beck and Elizabeth drive to Hoyt's, Elizabeth's father. It is Beck who goes inside, and he finds his father-in-law in the car, and he sits on the passenger seat. Little by little Hoyt confesses that he was one of the cops in Griffin Scope's paycheck. Beck's father started to suspect that Griffin was not honest and his son Jason was also a crook. When he told Hoyt, who was his friend, Hoyt betrayed him and told Griffin, who got him killed. Hoyt said that Elizabeth killed Jason in selfdefense when the man tried to attack her. Elizabeth's life was in danger, so he thought that they needed to fake her death. Otherwise, Griffin wouldn't stop until she was dead. So he knew about the two thugs that Griffin had hired to kill her, and he and his brother stopped them and killed them, and then Elizabeth fled to third-world countries. Then Hoyt used one of the unreclaimed bodies that looked like Elizabeth and lied in the identification.Now Hoyt is furious that Elizabeth is back and in danger. Then he says that he protects Elizabeth because she didn't kill Jason; he did. 

Tyrese calls Beck to say that Wu has his son. Hoyt calls Griffin and tells him that Beck will be ready to talk to him only if he lets the boy go. Hoyt and Beck go there and the child is released. We discover that Hoyt's car was tapped and Griffin knows everything. Hoyt is shot dead and so is Griffin. And then the police helicopters appear. We discover that Hoyt lied about killing Jason to protect Elizabeth and when he frisked Beck, looking for a wire, he kept quiet, but the police heard everything.

The end of the book shows Elizabeth and Beck in bed, and he says that they should never keep secrets from each other. And then we discover that it was Beck who actually killed Jason. When Jason sneaked into the house, it was Beck in bed, and he used his dad's gun to kill him. Beck got scared and ran away, and when he returned, the body was gone. I find this last part a bit over the top. I can't understand how Beck never connected what he did to Elizabeth's disapparance or her reappearance.