CHAPTER FOURTEEN
I KEPT THINKING ABOUT what Max Berenson had said—about Alicia’s suicide attempt, following her father’s death. There was no mention of it in her file, and I wondered why.
I rang Max the next day, catching him just as he was leaving the office.
“I just want to ask you a couple more questions if you don’t mind.”
“I’m literally walking out of the door.”
“This won’t take long.”
Max sighed and lowered the phone to say something unintelligible to Tanya.
“Five minutes,” he said. “That’s all you get.”
“Thanks, I appreciate it. You mentioned Alicia’s suicide attempt. I was wondering, which hospital treated her?”
“She wasn’t admitted to hospital.”
“She wasn’t?”
“No. She recovered at home. My brother looked after her.”
“But—surely she saw a doctor? It was an overdose, you
