We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)

by Karin Slaughter

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. —Orson Welles, The Big Brass Ring, 1982

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.’” Emmy gave her a blank look. “Edgar Allan Poe,”

Fewer than one percent of child abductions were committed by predatory kidnappers. The victims tended to be almost exclusively females with the aggregate age of fourteen. They were more likely to be taken in an outdoor setting and to be coerced with a firearm. The kidnapper was more often than not driving a car. In forty-four percent of cases, the victim is murdered within the first hour. Seventy-eight percent die within the first three hours. Within twenty-four hours, virtually all of the victims are dead.

“Aunt Millie,” Emmy tried to redirect her, “it’s not a bunch of crows. It’s a murder of crows.” “No,” Myrna chimed in. “It can’t be murder without probable caws.”

change doesn’t stop just ’cause you’re standing still. It’s gonna happen. You know that as well as me. Turn it into a good thing.

“A man has to prove himself once. A woman has to prove herself every day.”

“When people die, your relationship with them doesn’t end. You find new ways to connect with them.”