![]() ![]() The whole thing never feels convoluted, though it took me a while to get all the characters straight: the plot is far from straightforward, but in a proper whodunnit that’s a good thing and I liked it for that reason alone.īut there is so much to love here. The novel also frequently employs flashbacks to Y2K night at the Blockbuster’s. ![]() Chris works as a pro deo lawyer for frustrating basket cases Ella’s a therapist whose private life is a mess. Ella is one of them, but there’s also Sara Keller, a heavily pregnant FBI agent and Chris, the younger brother of the original suspect. The novel tells the story from multiple perspectives. Again, there is only one survivor: a young girl named Jesse, and she refuses to talk to anyone but Ella. ![]() Then, more than twenty years later, a similar bloodbath takes place at a Dairy Queen. A suspect is quickly found but he flees before anyone can catch him. Only the youngest of them, Ella Monroe, survives. Their manager – kindly, wearily and ineffectively – tries to get them to do their jobs, but the girl’s aren’t having it. A skeleton crew – four high school girls and their only slightly older manager – work the graveyard shift at a Blockbuster’s. ![]()
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