An audio book.
There's an upset in a Dublin courtyard. Police. 56 days before, Kiera (her PoV) meets Oliver in a supermarket queue. She's 25 and likes him. These 2 timelines fill most of the book.
Karl a policeman is handcuffed to a bed in his house. He calls Leigh, a policewoman, to free him. They get a phonecall saying that a body's been found. The body's been in an apartment for 2 weeks. There was a date-rape drug in his bathroom cabinet. Leigh suspects that the dead man is "child B".
53 days before, Kiera and Oliver have a sort of date. Covid's just started. He invites her to move in. She does, telling nobody. Lockdown is announced.
56 days before we get Oliver's PoV. He'd suspected Kiera had been watching him. He was using a false name. He wanted to be sure about her. In London he'd got into problems with Lucy. There was a trial where he was "child B".
In the block where Oliver lives Laura, a reporter, has moved in. She warns Kiera about Oliver, and hints to Oliver that she knows who he is. Oliver wants a new start.
Then we go back 78 days. Kiera and her sister talk about their terminal mother. Kiera says she's going to track down the child murderer - her family are in some way involved.
Oliver tells Kiera about the murder, saying that he wasn't much to blame, hence his shorter sentence. The other boy killed himself in prison. We learn that Kiera is the other boy's sister. She thinks that if Oliver's a nice guy then maybe her brother too. Oliver then tells her that actually he was the most guilty one.
He has loads of sleeping pills after which he discovers that she's been lying to him. His fall and death may well have been accidental.
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