Good Bad Girl: A Novel

When Liberty tells Patience that she’s going to the prison library, Patience asks if she can join because the librarian is her mother. This news surprises Liberty, who tells Patience that she shouldn’t trust anyone.

Clio opens the envelope she received from Frankie and finds a silver ladybug ring inside. She’s joined by Jude at the hospital, and the two reflect on how their mother treated them as children—sometimes well, but most often with disdain. Clio remembers the first child she ever became pregnant with—years before the second child was stolen, back when she was a teenager—and how her mother forced her to give the baby up.

The siblings are then joined by Charlotte, who accuses Jude of conspiring with Joy to have his mother killed. Charlotte explains that she believes that Joy was routinely killing the home’s residents—going back to Edith’s friend, May Chapman, who was also Charlotte’s grandmother. Clio immediately recognizes the name because May was the detective who worked on the case of her missing daughter. Charlotte says that she’s solved the murder thanks to information from Edith and arrests Jude for conspiring to murder his mother.