Single white female

EPILOGUE

Allie moved out of the Cody Arms the next month. Out of the city. She'd been offered a job in the actuarial department of a large insurance company in Rockport, Illinois. The company's real-estate division found her an affordable place to live, a small house on an acre of wooded land just outside of town.

It was always quiet there. Her mail was delivered to a rural box on a cedar post at the end of her driveway. Her nearest neighbors, a retired carpenter and his wife, waved to her whenever they saw her in her yard. Cars passed only occasionally.

Her old apartment in the Cody Arms was leased and occupied within days after she'd gone. To a pair of single women who said they were sisters.