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The Perfect Divorce
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Chapters 38-53Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual content, and death.
Chapter 38 Summary: “Stacy Howard”
Stacy calls out for Carissa. Carissa is scared and upset, but Stacy assures her that they’ll be okay. Finally, Carissa starts to remember something from when she was captured. Stacy is eager to hear what she knows because all she remembers is sitting in her car before her capture.
Carissa recalls being with Bob Miller; Stacy is shocked that Carissa knows Bob, too. She admits what happened with Bob and her attempts to blackmail him. Carissa gets upset and insults Stacy for being sexually manipulative. Stacy wonders if Carissa is right about her.
Chapter 39 Summary: “Sheriff Hudson”
Marcus stays up late watching hospital security footage. He studies the man who snuck into the hospital and killed Stevens, desperate to determine his identity.
Pam joins him, and they notice the perpetrator removing his gloves; he has one finger shorter than the other. Marcus realizes that it is Kelly’s husband Scott Summers, who had a distinctive hand. (In the previous novel, Scott fled town and hasn’t been heard of since Kelly’s murder. Marcus assumes he came back to avenge Kelly when he heard about Stevens’s arrest.)
