Chapters 32-36 Summary

In chapter 32, Cindy gives Boxer a phone number for a suspicious professor at Berkley, Lemouz. Boxer goes to interview Lemouz in chapter 33. He strikes her as annoying but not criminal.

When Boxer returns to the police station, Jacobi tells her they have a tip of a girl matching the nanny's description buying an inhaler near Berkley.

When the four women, Jill, Claire, Cindy and Boxer, meet for dinner in chapter 35, Jill explains the abuse and control her husband exerts. She promises to leave him the next time it happens. The next day, Boxer threatens Jill's husband at his law office.

Chapters 32-36 Analysis

It seems, for much of the novel, that Lemouz symbolizes a person who can have ideas outside of the mainstream and yet not be dangerous. However, this assumption proves wrong in the end.

Jill's subplot continues to be...