Point of View

The novel employs a somewhat untraditional point of view. The story opens up with a prologue told in a seemingly omniscient third-person point of view. The narrator does not introduce any characters. Instead, she simply describes the creepy lore of Lake Tahoe and says that many murderers have dumped bodies into the lake in the past.

In the first chapter, the narration begins as a third-person point of view that looks at a woman named Nina who uses Instagram to rob rich young men and women in Los Angeles. However, at the end of the chapter, the narrator reveals that she is Nina: “And then, somewhat idly, he will wonder who the woman was. No one will be able to tell him. I could tell him, though, because that woman—she is me” (13-14). From this point on, Nina continues to narrate in the first...