Alison Hodges

Hodges’s thoughts fly first to Corinne, his own ex-wife, next to his daughter Alison, who lives in San Francisco, and then to Holly. Christ, if something has happened to Holly . . . “What is it about, Pete?” “I’m at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide.

Bill explicitly thinks of his daughter Alison in San Francisco.

Hodges has time to think of the fairy tale where the wolf came down the chimney and landed in a pot of boiling water. His daughter, Alison, didn’t want to hear that one. She said it was too sca— “Bill! Bill! Over here!” Hodges sees Jerome at one of the basement windows.

Bill explicitly recalls his daughter Alison.

Don’t kid yourself. He knows my ex is Corinne and we have one adult child, a daughter named Alison. He knows Allie’s thirty and lives in San Francisco. He probably knows she’s five-six and plays tennis. All that stuff is readily available on the Net. These days, everything is.

Bill's adult daughter, also called Allie.