![]() ![]() Downing’s tale unfolds slowly and sinuously, building tension about the couples’ fate while revealing the origins of their homicidal hobby. ![]() Millicent’s husband initially relishes the idea of a suspicion-free killing spree, but quickly learns that resurrecting the local bogeyman has consequences. to match that of Owen Oliver Riley, a notorious local serial killer who escaped conviction. Millicent was supposed to have immediately killed and dumped Lindsay in a swamp, but she now claims that in order to distract the authorities, she changed their m.o. This revelation shocks the book’s 39-year-old unnamed narrator, since he and his wife, Millicent, were the ones who abducted Lindsay as part of a ploy to spice up their marriage. Police identify the victim as Lindsay, a young woman who went missing a year earlier and was apparently held captive for months before being strangled. ![]() The discovery of a corpse in an abandoned Woodview, Fla., motel kick-starts Downing’s taut debut. ![]()
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