Chap­ter 93 of We Solve Mur­ders opens with Rosie hear­ing a knock at her hotel door. She assumes it’s a room ser­vice boy, espe­cial­ly after the play­ful flirt­ing that took place between them ear­li­er in the day. How­ev­er, as the knock lingers, a sense of unease begins to set­tle in. What ini­tial­ly seemed like a harm­less vis­it soon takes on a more omi­nous tone as Rosie begins to real­ize that this knock might not just sig­nal a sim­ple deliv­ery, but the poten­tial arrival of some­one far more dan­ger­ous. She comes to the sud­den and chill­ing under­stand­ing that this could very well be the begin­ning of a sit­u­a­tion far more per­ilous than she antic­i­pat­ed, with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of encoun­ter­ing an assas­sin lurk­ing behind the door. The atmos­phere shifts, and her pulse quick­ens as she steels her­self for what­ev­er may come next, brac­ing for the worst.

When Eddie Flood enters the room, his demeanor is apolo­getic, offer­ing a stark con­trast to the ten­sion that is build­ing between them. He begins by stat­ing that he want­ed to be prop­er­ly pre­pared before meet­ing with Rosie, but his behav­ior and the situation’s grav­i­ty quick­ly dis­pel any sem­blance of polite­ness. Rosie watch­es close­ly as Eddie reach­es into his bag, and the brief moment of calm quick­ly gives way to ris­ing pan­ic. Could he be reach­ing for a weapon? Could he be the very threat she feared? The uncer­tain­ty rat­tles Rosie’s nerves as she con­tem­plates her next move. With a calm that betrays her grow­ing anx­i­ety, she brave­ly con­fronts him, ask­ing point-blank, “Who hired you to kill me?” The ques­tion is direct, leav­ing no room for ambi­gu­i­ty, and to her sur­prise, Eddie seems tak­en aback. He denies being a hit­man, and though his admis­sion about tak­ing mon­ey from Rob Ken­na rais­es more ques­tions, it also offers a brief glim­mer of clar­i­ty about the sit­u­a­tion. Rosie begins to piece togeth­er that Eddie’s true involve­ment is far more con­vo­lut­ed than she ini­tial­ly sus­pect­ed.

Their con­ver­sa­tion delves deep­er as Eddie opens up about his past, admit­ting that he has killed before, though he adds a sense of jus­ti­fi­ca­tion to his actions, claim­ing that he “used to” work as a hit­man. Rosie is left try­ing to make sense of his words, her mind rac­ing to under­stand his role in all this. She had sus­pect­ed, at first, that Eddie might be a dan­ger­ous fan, some­one whose admi­ra­tion had spi­raled into obses­sion. But as Eddie explains that he is, in fact, a writer, Rosie’s per­cep­tion of him shifts dras­ti­cal­ly. Eddie shares that he has been trav­el­ing, work­ing on a book, and had hoped that Rosie might read it. The rev­e­la­tion that he is a writer, some­one with per­son­al aspi­ra­tions rather than sin­is­ter motives, catch­es Rosie off guard. In her sur­prise, she humor­ous­ly remarks that dis­cov­er­ing Eddie’s true inten­tions is “so much worse” than fac­ing a hit­man, and the com­ment, while light­heart­ed, under­scores the absur­di­ty of the sit­u­a­tion. What she thought would be a dead­ly encounter now feels more like a strange twist of fate, and it leaves her reeval­u­at­ing every­thing about their inter­ac­tion.

The chap­ter builds on themes of dan­ger, mis­un­der­stand­ing, and the unpre­dictable nature of life. Rosie’s fear of being threat­ened with vio­lence is replaced by the unex­pect­ed real­iza­tion that Eddie’s true goal was sim­ply to con­nect with her about his book, adding a lay­er of com­plex­i­ty to the sto­ry. Their exchange, filled with ten­sion and humor, serves as a reminder of how life can take unpre­dictable turns, espe­cial­ly when the moti­va­tions of those around us are not what they ini­tial­ly seem. This twist also reflects the com­plex­i­ties of human inter­ac­tions and aspi­ra­tions, as Eddie’s inten­tions, though non­vi­o­lent, bring him into Rosie’s life in a way she nev­er could have imag­ined. Their inter­ac­tion leaves read­ers intrigued by the strange con­ver­gence of busi­ness, per­son­al ambi­tion, and mis­tak­en per­cep­tions, height­en­ing the sus­pense while also adding depth to the char­ac­ters and their sto­ries. As the chap­ter unfolds, read­ers are left won­der­ing how Eddie’s book and his encounter with Rosie will play into the larg­er nar­ra­tive, mak­ing it a com­pelling moment that weaves togeth­er the threads of mys­tery and unex­pect­ed rev­e­la­tions.