Strike interviews several people, such as Lula and John's maternal uncle Tony Landry, Lula's homeless friend Rochelle, and her boyfriend, Evan Duffield. He is especially intrigued by the statement of Tansy Bestigui, Lula's downstairs neighbour, who said she heard Lula fighting with a man and then falling from her balcony. It is clear she could not have heard it from two floors below, so her statement was initially dismissed. However, in reality, her husband had found her with cocaine and then pushed her out onto the balcony and locked her there, which was how she heard it. She did not reveal her true location when she heard the fighting, because it was ten below zero outside when her husband had pushed her onto the balcony, and her husband had forced her to remain silent, fearful of being arrested for abusing Tansy. Later, Rochelle Onifade is found dead, killed hours after leaving a meeting with Strike. He decides that she must have been in contact with Lula's murderer, though he doubts that she knew the person to be the
Strike interviews several people, such as Lula and John's maternal uncle Tony Landry, Lula's homeless friend Rochelle, and her boyfriend, Evan Duffield. He is especially intrigued by the statement of Tansy Bestigui, Lula's downstairs neighbour, who said she heard Lula fighting with a man and then falling from her balcony. It is clear she could not have heard it from two floors below, so her statement was initially dismissed. However, in reality, her husband had found her with cocaine and then pushed her out onto the balcony and locked her there, which was how she heard it. She did not reveal her true location when she heard the fighting, because it was ten below zero outside when her husband had pushed her onto the balcony, and her husband had forced her to remain silent, fearful of being arrested for abusing Tansy. Later, Rochelle Onifade is found dead, killed hours after leaving a meeting with Strike. He decides that she must have been in contact with Lula's murderer, though he doubts that she knew the person to be the