The Third Coincidence

Christina Hoag
New North
Published in
20 min readOct 9, 2023

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An Agatha Christie superfan gets suspicious and finds her soulmate.

Photo by Alexey Turenkov on Unsplash

Mattie turned the corner onto her street, huffing as she entered the final stretch of her three-mile morning power-walk. She immediately noticed a man lolling against one of the stone pillars bracketing the Moskovitzs’ gate across from her house, arms folded, ankles crossed. By the angle of his head, he seemed to be studying her second-story window — her…

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Christina Hoag
New North

Journalist, novelist, world traveller. Author of novels Law of the Jungle, Skin of Tattoos and Girl on the Brink. Ex Latin America foreign correspondent.