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Ryan
Main character
Alison
Girl who goes missing? Ryan's gf I think
“It just feels like the end, not the beginning, of something,” he says. “A goodbye.”
Ryan
She then pulls her T-shirt over her head and says, “I have the cure.”
It’s been five years
Nora Watanabe
Ryan's new gf?
Marty Salinger.
Ryan's defense atty
But he wasn’t free. Not from the suspicions. Not from his own guilt over failing to protect her. Not from his inability to deliver the authorities one viable clue.
And there was the vision of two hands—each one missing the pinky finger—dragging Ryan out of the car.
Nora’s
Oh is she a classmate like Eddie?
Eddie.
Classmate in law school
Gigante!
Giant
Missouri River Killer. MRK admitted to slaughtering eight women he’d abducted in towns along the river but denied taking Ali.
Aiden and Jake, two other classmates
I need to see you. Tomorrow, 10 a.m. at the Palazzo. I know who you are.
Ooh who sent this? Nora?
Poppy McGee
A military vet and now police deputy sheriff
Dash,
Poppy's older brother
The first clue is that he’s a grown-ass man and still goes by his high-school basketball nickname.
Oh did he know Ryan then?
Margaret
Police station receptionist
Sheriff Walton
Poppy's boss and the sheriff
“Do they think it’s Laura Palmetto’s car?” The local news has been going on about the missing teen who disappeared two weeks ago from Platte County, only fifteen minutes away.
Another missing girl
It’s Alison Lane’s car.
Kyle Dobbs
Another cop
The YouTube video didn’t mention that the car was a BMW, and Laura drove a beat-up Honda.
“The bigger question is who are the two dead guys you found in it?”
Shane O’Leary’s
Who is this guy?
Gina.
Shane's gf??
Chaz
Shane's friend?
“Anthony
Shane and Gina's son
Like they say, you’re only as happy as your least happy kid.
Patrick,
Chaz's son
“What about my old man?” O’Leary asks. “You were his right hand. He ever wring his hands about us kids?”
Is Shane a mob guy?
O’Leary shakes his head. “You work in my territory without permission, you don’t get any last words. You get what’s coming.” “His people are gonna hit back at us,” Chaz reminds him. “And I’ll be waiting.” With that, Chaz and O’Leary each grab an arm and throw the man overboard.
Oh yeah sounds like a mob hit. Guess Shane is the mob boss
Alison was in the same class as Dash, two years ahead of Poppy.
Both stars: Dash and Dodge. It was only five years ago but feels like longer.
Ben and Zach Something.
Boys In that viral video
And then Alison Lane, the pretty, somewhat petitely elegant girl, proceeds to beat the shit out of Ben and Zach. It starts with a knife hand to Ben’s throat, which immediately disables him. Then a knee to Zach’s groin, followed by a hard stomp to his foot.
Damn where did she learn that
Dena, Diana, and Divya have evidently been awake for hours, Instagram ready with their contoured makeup that looks like they applied it while watching a tutorial from a Kardashian. These women are smart—top of the class at Georgetown Law—but get too caught up in social media, like everybody else, he supposes. Eddie calls them 3D.
Clayton and Marci, both bookish and who bicker like an old married couple.
She has three things seemingly lost in this world of social-media outrage: perspective, nuance, and empathy.
Nora
Michael Lane.”
Alison's father
The woman next to Poppy makes a tiny scoffing noise. She looks down at Poppy. “They never searched that lake.”
“Often, those who seem like we should trust them, seem like they are leaders we should follow, are anything but.”
Jane Fincher
It’s a business card. It has the blue FBI seal on it, says: SPECIAL AGENT JANE FINCHER. The agent the sheriff warned Poppy about.
I wonder what the deal is with Jane and the sheriff
Before leaving the room, the agent says, “They probably told you not to talk to me. But you should.”
Jane
The sun is starting to come down, casting a yellow glow over the man. It’s hard to tell in the light, but the man appears to be staring right at him. Then the strangest thing: The man removes a glove and waves up at Ryan. He’s missing his pinky finger.
officer named Buckman.
One of the officer's on Alison's case
The girl disappeared off the face of the earth.
So no body was found?
When police arrested MRK, a man named Benedict Cromwell, last year at a campsite along the river, they didn’t find Alison Lane. But there was a strand of hair on Cromwell’s sleeping bag. It was a long strand, and the sheriff had the wherewithal to run it against Alison’s DNA. And there was a hit.
Do I have your attention now? Tomorrow, 10 a.m. at the Palazzo.
From the man with no pinkies?
