Good Bad Girl: A Novel

Edith goes to the place where her old house once was but discovers it’s now an apartment building. She runs into Clio, who figured that Edith would come here. Clio divulges that she and Jude sold Edith’s old house, which is how Clio has paid for Edith’s stay in the home. Clio also reveals that she paid Patience to take care of Edith in the home, to give Jude updates on Edith, and to get Edith out of the home. Edith asks if the police have been to see Clio yet—not about Edith’s disappearance but about the murder. Edith says that she was there when the murder happened.

Frankie returns to her houseboat and finds a voicemail from her daughter, who explains that she’s been taken in by an officer named Chapman—the same detective who came to the houseboat earlier. Frankie decides that she needs to go to the police station and “confess to what she did” (188).

Clio and Edith take the bus to Clio’s house. Edith is prickly and judgmental of Clio’s various lifestyle choices—from her desire to keep Dickens off the furniture to her veganism. Clio tells her mother that Patience was arrested in connection to Joy’s murder, and Edith says that they must go to the police immediately because Patience’s arrest is all her fault.