Summary

In Chapter 17, Nora, Flo, Tom, Nina, and Clare are welcomed to the Tuckett’s Wood shooting range by Greg. Greg familiarizes the group with shooting, and warns them that guns are to be respected and treated seriously. He volunteers Flo to help him fire a gun to demonstrate the effects of shooting a person on a paper target. Everyone is stunned. Greg reminds them to be very careful.

In Chapter 18, back at the house, Tom and Flo are thrilled after the shooting outing. Nora says she sort of enjoyed it, but can already feel a bruise from the gun’s recoil forming on her shoulder. Nina wants to make a call to Jess, but has no reception. Nora volunteers her phone, but realizes it is missing. Tom explains that he had a fight with Bruce before coming to the hen weekend, in which Bruce...