It turns out that she is correct, but they are not there to harm her. This is not the first thing Teacher has done that is suspicious and Olivia concludes that he and Madonna are there to watch her. She decides to take care of the situation herself and casts a spell on him to give him momentary pain. When Fiji returns, she finds Teacher there and realizes that he has broken in and searched her house. Manfred substitutes for her during the day, but leaves after business hours, and Kiki has already left, so there is a period of time when the house is empty. Fiji agrees to try and goes to the home to see her. He asks Fiji whether she can do anything to help the woman. While all of this is going on, Manfred finds out that a friend of his who lives in an elderly care home is talking about going to the crossroad in Midnight. His death receives media coverage and when Kiki pretends that she lives in Midnight and implies that strange things happen there, Fiji asks her to leave as she is harming the town. While Kiki is there, another woman who made Fiji mad attempts to commit suicide and a character from the first novel in the trilogy returns and kills himself.

Quinn also comes back to Midnight as he has a break and misses his son, Diederik. Fiji wishes she would leave, but feels that she has no choice but to agree that she can stay because she is family. She says that she has left her husband and wants to stay at Fiji’s for a while. She also decides that she needs to be tougher. This addition to the invitation makes her think that he is not interested in her romantically and never will be, so she decides to stop pursuing him. He crushes her though when he, misinterpreting her slow response, adds that they can stay in separate rooms. She is slow to answer as she is trying to figure out whether he is really suggesting that just the two of them go on vacation.

Lem realizes that he has to finish the translation of the books he has been reading quickly as he thinks they hold the key to the suicides.īobo goes to see Fiji the next morning to ask her whether she would like to go on vacation with him.

The residents feel that magic is somehow involved because even the ghosts in the town have been acting strangely. Fiji realizes that she knew the victim and did not particularly like her. They think that it is the first suicide, but Lem, who works at the pawnshop at night, tells them that there was one before. Kindle Edition.Īs the narrative begins-told by an omniscient narrator-a man commits suicide at the crossroad and the residents of Midnight gather to discuss what is going on. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Harris, Charlaine.

Night Shift by Charlaine Harris