Happy to be out from under a - totally fucking warranted - cloud of doubt, he settles down and resigns himself to living a solitary life. While he is initially under suspicion - because, you know, he’s a guy - the police eventually decide that he had nothing to do with Layla’s disappearance. #ButPartnersOfMissingWomenYesTheyAreLiars Which is wholly unsurprising as men are fucking liars. We are then, immediately, told that this version of events isn’t quite true. After a brief yet relatively exhaustive search, he left the rest area and went for help. When he returned from the restroom, he found her missing. He left his girlfriend, Layla, asleep in the front seat of the car. While traveling on a secluded highway at night, Finn decided to pull over and go to the bathroom at a remote rest area. This book opens with the protagonist, Finn’s, account of the night on which his live-in girlfriend went missing.Īs Finn told it, the couple was vacationing in France. Paris, I already had a sneaking suspicion as to who was going to be to blame. Martha’s going to be found in a shallow grave behind her husband’s office, traces of her blood are going to be found in his car and a review of the search history on the home computer is going to find that someone searched “how to kill your wife and get away with it” about three times a week for the last year.Īnd this belief that men are always - seriously always - to blame for the atrocities perpetrated against women translates to the page as well.
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