Everyone Here Is Lying: A Novel

When Gully and Bledsoe get to the Blanchard house, they find Erin crying on the floor while Nora stands over Ryan protectively. Nora tells the detectives that Erin assaulted Ryan.

Gully takes Erin home, and Michael asks what happened. Erin tells him about the witness who saw Avery getting into Ryan’s car. Gully asks her how she knows about that, and Erin says that William told her. Gully says that they only told the Blanchards that information, and Erin realizes that Nora is William’s mistress. William watches footage on the news of the altercation between Erin and Ryan.

Gully and Bledsoe interview Nora and tell her they found her burner phone in the house. She tells the detectives about her affair with William. Nora tells them that Ryan did not know about the affair, but she thinks that Al did.

Gully and Bledsoe interview Al. They ask him where he was on Tuesday afternoon, and he tells them that he stopped at the Breezes Motel. He confesses that he has known about Nora and William’s affair for some time and that every Tuesday he sits in the parking lot and watches them go in and come back out.