Part 3, The Girl Who Loved Thomas Berryman Summary

Ochs goes to Thomas Berryman's beachfront home where he finds Oona Quinn in residence. Oona is a beautiful young woman who was something like a girlfriend to Thomas Berryman. Oona allows Ochs to stay at the beach house as she tells him her part of Berryman's story. Berryman and Oona spent a weekend at the beach house in the weeks before the murder. While fixing the roof, Berryman saw a car driving in front of the house many times but did not become alarmed. That night, Berryman and Oona spent a romantic night in bed where, influenced by too much drink, Berryman lets it slip that he has been hired to kill Horn. The next morning, Berryman discusses murder, wondering if Oona thinks she could kill someone if a stranger gave...