The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel

Lily thinks back to when she met Ted at Heathrow Airport. She remembers meeting him a few years before when she ran into Faith at a market. Faith told her that she went by “Miranda” now, since Faith was her middle name, and introduced Lily to her fiancé Ted. Miranda apologized for never contacting her about what happened to Eric. Based on Miranda’s facial expression, Lily concluded that she knew about Eric’s infidelity, and she decides to get revenge on her later. When Lily saw Ted again in the airport bar, she listened to him about Miranda’s infidelity. Lily decided to convince him to murder Miranda and Brad.

A few weeks later, in the present, Lily reads the morning paper and discovers that Ted was murdered in his home. The police are investigating the murder as a burglary gone wrong, especially since there was another break-in at a residence a few blocks away. Lily knows that Miranda arranged to have Ted murdered. Lily realizes that she underestimated Miranda because she did not suspect that she wanted to kill her husband. Lily realizes that Brad must have burgled another house, then knocked on Ted’s door. Ted would have let him in because he knew him.