Summary

In Chapter 26, Ricky tells Iris and Alice that Steve is planning on pleading guilty. Ricky suspects someone bribed Steve to change his plea. She tells the girls to go to the station and “raise a stink.”

In Chapter 27, Alice storms into the police station and tells Detective Thompson almost everything she knows. He tells her nothing she says matters because Steve is confessing.

In Chapter 28, Iris concocts a plan to spread rumors about police misconduct and Coach’s potential motives on Facebook and TikTok by enlisting the Zoners to manufacture a #CastleCoveCorrupt trend and by riling up Dotty to speak about the missing sneaker and police tapes. Iris feels a bit guilty about throwing Coach to the wolves without real proof of his guilt, but she reasons that he can afford a good lawyer, unlike Steve. At the end of the chapter, an...