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Ch 01: once upon a time there was a generic sad man with a perfect generic dead wife.

already, the author has a sweet local-bubble star map, so I’m guessing that we’re curious about similar things.

Lol what

Yeah, what I thought. Also…there were no clues

Lol. Worst investigators ever.

Finally something to do with the mystery

Sometimes it’s interesting reading the perspective of a female author and what they think men think about, which stereotype they believe, or perpetuate.

Ugh, gross.

Ew, no.

No bugs? Only in books…

Ch 15: nothing happens. The detectives dance together.

I’ve never heard of black-out drinking bringing back memories.

Jesus, Det. Ryan, the poet. — “The high, arrogant lines of the surrounding buildings should have dwarfed him, but instead they seemed to me to align themselves around him, swooping into strange geometries with him at their crux, imbuing him with some impenetrable significance.”

OK, so this is a statistically proven common occurrence, but why did the author decide to make it absurd? Also, completely unrelated.

I guess this is a literary trope, but I’ve never seen a group of childhood friends having wildly and contrary life path in real life, almost inversions of each other.

L O L. Let me get this straight, the only “clues“ are miraculous, inaccurate, and intermittent memories?

Detective Cassie literally tells Detective Ryan a bedtime story.

Not how trauma memories work.

Is this what it’s like to be 40 years old and upper middle class in Dublin? Is this the type of story that comes from that experience?

These detectives are the opposite of hard boiled, which is to say, absurdly immature, stuck in childhood.

Det. Ryan asks Rosalin nothing.

Here we go again… — “She listened in silence, with her eyes—blue eyes, the color of faded denim…”

I’m hoping this black coffee nonsense isn’t supposed to be a clue.

Third wild baseless speculation by Detectives.

Det. Ryan whines and long expositions about his childhood.

I didn’t realize this book was 16 years old! What a difference time makes…

I’ve watched too many action movies, and I can’t take this verbally abusive police captain seriously.

Lol. Is not wearing a bra suspicious? — “…wasn’t wearing a bra.” I had noticed that, but I hadn’t realized that Cassie had as well, and the dig irritated me. “She may well be a very nice girl, but there’s something off there.”

Cassie and Ryan are jerks.

Det. Ryan lectures us like an elderly white man