The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

by Ally Carter

She’d never been because there had never been money, and once there was money there wasn’t time. It was the catch-22 of her life,

She didn’t smile or soften the words or do any of a million things she’d been trained to do to keep a man from feeling threatened.

She’d been conditioned and trained and she knew better than to be loud because the loud girl doesn’t get invited back. But the words were an avalanche that had started in the

Like she’d been taught to live by two simple rules: (1) When in doubt, assume you’re the problem. And (2) Always be in doubt.

plans are like hearts: they get broken.

“You know, if mankind has one universal superpower, it’s gaslighting women into thinking they’re the problem.”