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A mystery or two . . . Cole and Hope Trapp disappeared on New Year’s Eve 1999—or, technically, the following day, when they were reported missing, as both had been seen after midnight, albeit in separate locations: Cole in his cousin Frederick’s bunk bed, a quarter past twelve, when Freddy himself fell asleep; Hope outside a liquor store in the Presidio, where Sebastian’s brother and sister-in-law dropped her off at 1:30 A.M.
Although this book is quite long and wordy, I found it worth reading for how all the mysteries are shockingly revealed!
Sebastian sighs. “People your age—young people, I mean—you treat your lives like galleries, for public display, open to all. My life is no gallery. It’s a vault, a black box, and—I’m sorry I can’t put this more elegantly—it’s nobody’s damn business.”
“I volunteer. In the kids’ section. My compensation is the magic of a child’s smile.” Scratching Watson’s rump. “Dr. Seuss today.” “How were the children?” asks her stepmother. “I do not mind them in a room, I do not want one in my womb.
I found Madeleine to be an interesting and intriguing character.
Jean-Luc is Madeleine’s off-again-on-again boyfriend of three years, a Parisian she met at a dinner party in Marin County. Jean-Luc is handsome. Jean-Luc is an architect. Jean-Luc is imaginary.
Nicky sits up. All of a sudden, she craves escape—not from this house, not from the attic, but from the here and now. She wants transport: to an alternate dimension where death isn’t a tragedy but a puzzle; where lives are as disposable as yesterday’s crossword; where people die for money or lust or revenge, never for reasons unknown.
