Summary

Chapter 13 is written from Matthew Venn’s third-person perspective. Matthew gets up and goes to his office. He calls Angela Bale, the woman who saw Simon in the café in Braunton. She is hesitant to talk to him because her husband told her that she should not get involved in the case, however, Matthew convinces her to talk to him during her lunch break. He decides that that he can also talk to the dog-walker who found Simon’s body. He is happy to leave the office because he feels that it is claustrophobic. He realizes that this is a problem he needs to deal with.

Matthew goes to see the dog walker first. On the way he thinks about when he was a child and his mother took away his belief in Santa Claus. When he talks to the dog walker, he...