SPOILERS!!!
When Kate and her team realise that there is a connection between Caroline and Maddie, and Caroline may have murdered Maddie. When the police go to pick her up, they realise that she has left her home. Then they find her car near a cliff which is popular among people who want to commit suicide. When they check the car, there is a note asking the police to find Jeanette.
Kate doesn't think that Caroline killed herself, and she thinks that they need to know more about Jeanette, Caroline's sister who went missing. From the police report they discover that Jeanette went out with friends that night, but she never returned home. Kate goes to talk to Julie, who at the time was Jeanette's best friend. The woman tells her and Hollis that Jeanette was great, and she claims that even though Jeanette never told her, she saw bruises on her body, which made her suspect that her father abused her.
Kate thinks that Jeanette is dead, and if her father killed her, then her body must be in the garden. Her boss agrees to dig up the garden, and they discover the bones under the concrete block in the greenhouse. When O'Connor tells Kate that his contacts told him that a woman contacted them for a fake ID. Then Kate knows that Julie lied to her, so she returns to talk to the woman. Julie finally admits that she ran into Caroline one night, and she was drunk and started telling her about her plans to make her father suffer. Caroline told her how her father had treated Jeanette horribly, and he deserved to suffer.
Kate thinks that maybe they can attract Caroline if they announce that the funeral for Dennis and Jeannette would be at the same time. Then that night Caroline surprises her by appearing in the back seat of her car and threatening with a knife. Caroline makes her drive to the lock where she killed Maddie, and they leave the car. Caroline admits to killing Maddie but she only considers her death collateral damage. What Caroline is angry is that her sister should share a grave with her father. I have to say that I didn't see the reason why Caroline appeared in this way to talk to Kate and then she realises that she had to kill her. Thankfully, two voices tell her that she is surrounded by the police. The voices belong to Sam and her partner, Abbie. Caroline is arrested.
In a chapter told from the perspective of young Caroline, we discover how Dennis killed Jeanette when she came back from partying late. Caroline saw her still on the floor, but her father told her to go back to her bedroom. The next day the police came because her father reported Jeanette missing, and he told her to say the same. Then a few days later Caroline noticed a terrible smell coming from the bathroom. She didn't want to go inside, but she was thirsty, and she found her father moving her dead sister, and then Dennis forced her to help him bury her. After that, he told her that if she told anyone, the police would come after her because she had helped her. What I don't understand from this narration is how the mother didn't hear what happened between father and her daughter when they were outside the bedroom door. Maybe as she suffered from depression, she was too drugged to hear anything. But then where did Dennis leave the body while the police were searching for Jeanette? How could he leave Jeanette in the bathroom? I imagine that he hid her somewhere else, but there is no mention in the novel.
In the last chapter Kate and her team are celebrating. Sam tells her that Abbie, her partner, who leaft her because she couldn't stand living on a houseboat, has come round when Sam promised that they could find a house for the winter and live in the houseboat in the summer. And Kate is now seeing Nick Tsappis, the oncologist, who she met in the case.
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