Chapter 18 Summary

After less than two hours of sleep, Kinsey packs everything into her car, checks out of the Hacienda, and stops by the Glass residence to return Libby's boxes. Grace is almost guilty in her relief when Kinsey tells her that she found nothing, keeping news of the letter to Elizabeth to herself. Kinsey feels a little irritated and yet somehow guilty about Mrs. Glass, who really has been as helpful as she could. Kinsey takes a moment to reexamine the basement and surrounding area for clues of the previous night's intruder, but finds nothing. She returns to Santa Teresa by ten in the morning and sleeps on her couch for most of the day.

At four in the afternoon, Kinsey drives out to Nikki's beach house, mainly to see if her suspicions about Nikki might possibly be true. The beach house is whimsical...