Summary

The novel begins in third-person past with a close focus on the protagonist, Pip, though many chapters begin and end with present-tense podcast transcripts, case notes, interview recordings, emails, or text messages. In “After and Before,” Pip sat in her room and listened to her old audio file of Elliot Ward pretending he thought Sal had killed Andie when in fact he had really helped to do it himself. She was making a six-episode podcast of the investigation she had conducted into the murder of Andie during the first novel in the trilogy which took place six week prior in November. She wanted to tell the story herself because she felt the media was still twisting facts. Her boyfriend, Ravi, the brother of the wrongfully accused killer, Sal, came over to take her to dinner for Valentine’s Day. Ravi...