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I Know Who You Are: A Novel
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Chapters 19-37Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child abuse, graphic violence, sexual violence, rape, physical abuse, emotional abuse, animal cruelty and death, substance use, and illness or death.
Chapter 19 Summary
In Aimee’s dressing room, Detective Croft questions her about the night that her husband, Ben, disappeared. Croft shows her a photo of Ben’s bloodied face from an assault report he filed against her that day. Croft brings up her childhood amnesia and suggests that alcohol might make her forget an attack.
Croft then asks about her rumored affair with costar Jack Anderson and challenges her timeline, stating that Ben called a domestic abuse counselor from their house when Aimee claimed to be home. Croft plays a voicemail from the call in which Ben expresses fear that she’ll kill him.
Chapter 20 Summary
In Essex in 1987, Maggie blindfolds Aimee and leads her into a decorated room for Christmas. When the power goes out, John feeds coins into the electricity meter. The presents under the tree, addressed to Aimee, are dusty. She spots a photograph of another girl who looks like her, but Maggie quickly hides it. While John takes Polaroids, Aimee opens her gifts, and at Maggie’s prompting, calls her “Mum.”
Chapter 21 Summary
After the police leave, Jack invites Aimee out for a drink. Convinced that Ben is framing her, she joins Jack at the Pinewood Studios Club Bar.
