Before She Disappeared (Frankie Elkin, #1)

Frankie phones Lotham and tells him what she has learned about Deke, who was the skinny man watching Livia. She also tells him about Riddenscail working at the rec center and arranging for the 3D printer.

Lotham tells Frankie he knows what happened to Paul and asks Frankie what is really driving her. He knows it isn’t as simple as finding lost people and suggests she is trying to get herself killed. She doesn’t answer.

Lotham reports on his end of the investigation. There was a white van spotted at the park with a tall, skinny driver and a passenger wearing a ball cap. The description sounds like Deke, but Deke was watching Frankie’s window at the same time the van was seen at the park, which rules him out.

At Livia’s school, Frankie confronts Riddenscail about the grant and the 3D printer at the rec center. When she tells him Livia is dead, he looks shocked and grieved but not guilty. He claims to know nothing about how she got into trouble. Frankie shows him the pictures of Livia and Angelique at Gleeson College. The pictures of the college look familiar to Riddenscail. He finds the same pictures, this time from an older website for Lannister College.