Summary

The novel is narrated in first-person present. The chapters alternate between Alice Ogilvie and Iris Adams as narrators. Each chapter is labeled with a date and time. At the end of some chapters is an epistolary document, like a text message chain or a newspaper report. In Chapter One, Alice goes to the Sadie Hawkins dance at Levy Castle on February 11th. She sees a portrait of her former best friend, Brooke Donovan, the great granddaughter of Charles Levy, the man who built the castle. Brooke was murdered during the previous novel. Together, Alice and Iris had solved the crime and put the culprit in jail. Charles Levy had an affair with a film star, Mona Moody, who lived in the castle a few years before falling off the castle’s balcony in 1949 when she was 20. Alice has been obsessed with Mona Moody...