Now the news that Jay was contacting imprisoned felons for a possible book and the discovery in his filing cabinet of a necklace belonging to the missing Annalise Robb threatens to bring Molly’s past crashing back into her carefully constructed present. Abducted as a child along with a friend and neighbor, she was imprisoned in a basement and repeatedly molested, and she’s suffered ever since from the dreadful knowledge that the other victim didn’t survive. Elise Westmore, and her husband, Scott and Jay’s hockey buddy, Cal Ferris, and his wife, Laken-can hold a candle to Molly’s own history, which was known only to Jay. But nothing said by any of them-Molly’s BFF, Kim Pearson, and her husband, Josh Jay’s partner, Dr.

Rita Myers, whose first-person narrative alternates with Molly’s, naturally wants to talk to the friends who gathered for the party. Jay Bradley’s 40th birthday party, when she awakens to find him dead on the floor of his home office, his throat cut. Molly’s dreams of happiness end the morning after Dr. She lives in lovely Graybridge, Massachusetts she works in a bookstore she’s married to a psychologist everyone loves. Her friends probably could be forgiven for thinking that Molly Bradley is the heroine of a cozy mystery. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started on the run from a killer.A suburban Massachusetts couple’s contented veneer is shattered by a murder that leads to, well, some really dark places. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libbys doomed family members including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. and maybe shell admit her testimony wasnt so solid after all.Īs Libbys search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. For a fee, shell reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club. When they locate Libby and pump her for details proof they hope may free Ben Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes.

Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers whove long forgotten her.

She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas. As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.

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