Chapter Twenty
Wednesday, 12:13 p.m.
Between the commotion Lily and Tara had created, and the mess on the floor, it seemed to take forever to get Barry’s funeral back on track. Eventually, Detective Sharp helped Pastor Dave to restore order. With Lily gone, the rest of my eulogy went off without a hitch. Owen O’Connell followed with a few formal, but heartfelt words of his own before Pastor Dave took over again. Voices sung off-key and stumbled over words as we all attempted to work our way through the psalms the pastor had selected for the occasion. Tara seemed to be singing something else entirely. (I swear at one point, I heard the words to the Barenaked Ladies’ ‘If I Had a Million Dollars’—Barry’s favourite song.) I smiled and shook my head from my place beside her. I felt almost gid
