#Stay close serial

Megan though, who pieced together the story from both of them, and had disposed of Carlton’s distinctive necklace in the sea to protect Kayleigh, knows what really happened. Carlton therefore drowned in the lake, with Kayleigh and Dave none the wiser about his fate. Without talking to Kayleigh and so unaware that a drugged Carlton was in the boot of the car, Dave pushed the car into a lake to keep Kayleigh out of any trouble she may be in.

Later on, Dave saw the same car on a news report about Carlton going missing. Kayleigh phoned her dad Dave, who collected them and noticed the distinctive orange car nearby. When he caught up with and Kayleigh and attacked her, she managed to lock him inside the boot of his car and drove away with Bea, until the car ran out of petrol in the middle of nowhere. Kayleigh took Carlton’s car keys, and he chased her and Bea out into the woods. Carlton got them into the club underage, and attempted to spike Kayleigh’s drink before Bea realised and swapped the cocktails, drugging Carlton. Kayleigh and Bea had gone to Vipers on carnival night, following Megan’s trail. Dave just thought he was helping to protect his daughter Kayleigh, who’d called him for a lift on carnival night. Technically, it was Megan/Cassie’s fiancée ‘Average Dave’, not that he knew he was killing anybody. Last spoiler warning! Who killed Carlton Flynn?

Let’s revisit that revelation, and untangle any lingering finale questions.

#Stay close serial

One murderer in Stay Close who definitely knew they’d done it was the serial killer responsible for packing that woodland bunker with a Jenga tower of human bones and knobbly bits. That’s how next-level the secrets are in a Harlan Coben thriller – even the murderers don’t know they did it. You may now know all about your new wife’s hidden past, but there’s still the matter of you and daughter Kayleigh inadvertently tag-teaming to murder a man that neither of you knew you’d killed. “And that is it,” laughed Dave to Megan on their long-awaited wedding day, “there are definitely no more secrets.” Not quite, Dave. Warning: contains spoilers for the Harlan Coben’s Stay Close finale.