The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

by Ally Carter

I’m not offended that you’d accuse me of murder. I’m offended you’d think I’d be bad at it.

“There’s no way, no universe, no reality in which you aren’t the brightest star in the whole damn sky,

If you were missing, I’d find you. I’d tear the house down stone by stone. I’d rip apart every room and scour every field and I wouldn’t stop. I would never stop.”

Maggie wasn’t talking about Eleanor anymore. “You know, if mankind has one universal superpower, it’s gaslighting women into thinking they’re the problem.”