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Does this make sense? — “As the Broomstick inched closer and closer to the dot on the map…”

What amazing timing! — “..she needed a new place to live and the paid work that came with it.” serendipity

It’s funny but I can think of three or four comic books that use the exact same name. — “…come to Nowhere House…”

countdown clock. - “We’re running out of time.”

meh. - “…but I fear he’s going to be suffering from an inexplicable itch in his groin for a few weeks.”

Exposition. “She moved out of the house and, for the past thirteen years…”

uh oh.

Tangent: Today, I learned about Anna Julia Cooper. Born into slavery in North Carolina in 1858, she earned B.A. and M.A. degrees at Oberlin and in 1925 at that age of 67 she received a Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in Paris.

can a person be consider a sailor if they only have a row boat?

I don’t think that preposition is helping me. — “This place was dark and quiet with dreams.”

1 guess there's only ever three endings in a detective story.

There’s no way Perez figured that out from two short vague unrelated phrases.

A mystery book is a good opportunity to just rummage through somebody's life.

“…he thought maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to end his days here. He would be with people he knew, people he’d grown up with…

unexpected change of heart by Fran to draw suspicion.

the bodies are piling up!

tracing this guy’s life is a slow process….

never good when you lose your sense of agency. — “She followed him. What else could she do?”

I’m starting to get used to all the extraneous information. So Taylor likes Home Makeover shows, eh?

It’s a little perverse to have Dana resuscitate Weylin.

Yup. Things went to where I thought they’d go.

let’s hope real police work doesn’t require serendipitous drunken confessions.

rolling my eyes when an English guy thinks Scotland is “alien”. Just wait until he learns there’s more than one continent. — “There’d been a masochistic pleasure in landing in a town so alien, so unlike anywhere he would otherwise have chosen to live…”

How strange to confidently say that you’ve interviewed everyone in an entire town within a day.

and yet, Perez knows every intimate detail of their lives: every trauma, every dream…— “ …his dealings with the family had been limited.”

dramatic yet confusing. — “He was the sort of man who would know.”

that’s a weird way to put it. — “She thought he would be an interesting person to have around…”

Funny. I vaguely remember odd flyers also being in a children’s book. middle age mystery, maybe?

We already knew all that, but I guess we got some “offhand” backstories.

ok. — “Once he’d ricked his ankle here and it had been painful for days.”