SPOILERS!!!
Ben decides to travel to Norway and give Adeline the letters that her mother wrote to her. When she reaches Oslo, Simon suddenly appears, saying that he has followed her. Ben is not pleased as she doesn't want any interference and is over the attraction that she felt for the man. Yet, he cannot get rid of the man. He drives her to the place where the cult lives and she gets to see Adeline. The younger woman is critical about her mother, and even though Ben tries to make her understand, she is not welcoming. In the end, she leaves the letters, convinced that Adeline will throw them away.
When she and Simon return to Ireland, she gets a call from Tom, saying that someone tried to break into her home and her lock was broken. Simon volunteers to take her in that night, and Ben accepts, intending to leave early in the morning. So the next day she wakes up early and in the bathroom she finds lots of medicines in the bathroom cabinet, and one contains the drug that was found in Marguerite.
Ben goes home and when she is about to get inside, she feels someone hitting her in the head and faints. When she comes around, she realises that she is in the boot of a car. When the car finally stops and she is allowed out, she realises she is in the cliffs overlooking the area where Marguerite drowned. The men facing her is David, Simon's son. He is very angry and in the dialogue that ensues, Ben understands that David belongs to the cult and has a relationship with Adeline. He is very angry because Ben gave her the letters her mother wrote to her, and now Adeline has discovered that her father was not the leader of the cult, so she has come clean and left the leadership of the cult. Ben understands that David intercepted the letters and returned them to Marguerite, wanting to show her that Adeline was not interested in her. David's idea was to lead the cult with Adeline, and when Marguerite became a nuisance, he gave her the drug in the tea that night, and he left her lying near the sea where she drowned. Then Tom and Simon appear, and David threatens to throw himself from the cliff. Tom tells him that he knows that he didn't kill Marguerite as the culprit confessed, but it is useless and David jumps from the cliff.
Tom and Ben drive to the village, and Tom tells him that someone came forward and confessed to the crime. The person who has confessed is James Quinn, Brendan's son. Brendan is at the station and Ben agrees to represent the young man who she remembers seeing with Hugh O'Connor. The boy says that he was walking on the beach and saw Marguerite lying there. He hit her with a rock in the head and then removed her clothes and put it in the sea. Tom and Ben think that he is lying. When she gets to the office, she checks the charge documents against O'Connor, and she realises that they are from the day of the murder. Ben intends to go to Tom, and then O'Connor appears, intending to stop her. We learn that the boy killed her because the woman annoyed her when she talked about family, and he did not realise that she was talking about her daughter. The truth about O'Connor is that he was not Aidan's son. His mother Clodagh dated Seamus Tinghe, a relationship that his father did not approve of. The truth was that Seamus was Clodagh's half brother, and Clodagh found herself pregnant, so when she learnt the truth, she left Seamus and married Aidan. This is a story that would have been a scandal. O'Connor tries to kill Ben, but Tom appears and arrests him. Later Aidan tells Ben that he made the mistake to tell his son the truth when he discovered the truth. We discover that O'Connor killed Seamus after disccovering he was his father, and he also killed Iggy because he thought he knew too.
At the end of the book, when everything is solved, Tom comes to talk to Ben, and he confesses that even though Laura wanted him back, he told her that he couldn't as he could only think of one other person. That is when they finally get together.
I loved the book and I have to say that I didn't know who the killer was until the very end.
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