The memorial to Jack and Liam consisted of a large, Calder-like mobile of two manatees swimming around and around a small whale that spouted water into the air every minute. The memorial to Piper and Poppy, she had placed at the base of the lighthouse at the edge of the island. It was a very large sculpture of a kitten’s paw and a jingle seashell. The lighthouse was ringed by a newly planted semicircle of different kinds of red flowers that bloomed all year round and a semicircle of purple flowers that was also perpetually in bloom.
Harry’s work proved what Joel had told her the day he tried to murder her. He had indeed killed both Jack and Liam. After dousing Liam’s body with sodium hydroxide, he had buried his remains in the yard, which was confirmed by the DNA analysis of the bones that had been dug up.
Jack’s body had ended up in the swimming pool, and everyone had assumed it was the body of his twin brother, Joel. Jack, it turned out, had spent his life after his mother’s death at the Canterberry Institute, in Savannah, Georgia, an institution for the mentally challenged. He had been released only two days before his death. From his doctor, they had learned that Jack had witnessed Joel push their mother down the steps. Jack had always been slow, and after Lois’s death, Grant had had him placed at Canterberry for his own protection.
She didn’t want to know any more than that.
Right now, for the first time, her life was hers, on her own terms.
