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The Reveal (Spoiler)
Were you surprised to find out Darwin's identity? Did you see it coming? If so, at what point?
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I did waver a bit throughout, but kept coming back.
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I remained dubious about the "statistician" until the end though since no one in the health department mentioned the lady having a "heart attack" and connecting it with anything suspicious or coincidental. It also didn't seem likely for Darwin to be able to have a close relationship with anyone considering his OCD and phobia of germs. He wouldn't have been able to completely hide it and I would have thought Jeremy's mother to have at least noticed a few irregularities with the man, even if she didn't connect him with the murders.
I think Darwin's identity and keeping it hidden was the most rough-edged part of this book. I'm not sure how it could have been better handled, but I still felt something was missing with the identity connection.
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I suspected him at first too. He was a good candidate.LivreAmour217 wrote:He was on my short list of suspects, so I wasn't too shocked. However, I was leaning more toward the lawyer's boyfriend.
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Good catch! I don't remember the little mentions of who used hand sanitizer. I sometimes think there is a reason why a minor character is put in the story. That's why I thought of Mr. Sneekers, the lawyer's boyfriend, and even the janitor early in the story. The author did a great job of misdirection.KAV wrote:I was shocked. I completely thought it was the doctor (Mr. Sneekers) or Connie's old boyfriend (Rex). I kept focusing on the hand sanitizer comments. Both of those characters kept using it, but there was no mention of George ever washing his hands.
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I also suspected the doctor, and the boyfriends, and wouldn't have been at all surprised if it had been one of them.
I think it would have been totally twisted if it had wound up being the nurse. I actually thought very early on that Darwin could have been a woman.
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Scott wrote:[This is a discussion topic for the March 2016 book of the month Eating Bull by Carrie Rubin.]
Were you surprised to find out Darwin's identity? Did you see it coming? If so, at what point?
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Usually I tend to stay away from the mystery genre as a whole because within the first 100 pages or so (sometimes more if the book is long) I figure out whodunit. This book though...WOW. I did not see it coming. Perhaps it was because George had so little description or portion within the story, but it had me guessing all the way through. The way that Rubin described his rituals, workplace...it was shrouded in mystery and wonderfully done. It's very rare that a mystery keeps me guessing all the way to the end, and this was done so beautifully. Definitely impressed. Once I read the story all the way through I actually went back and could piece little clues together but for the most part I honestly kept thinking it was someone else. I'm still in shock - I want to reread it now that I've analyzed it properly.
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Wow I didn't even think about the hand sanitizer but now that you mention it that was a huge theme throughout the story - great catch! I personally thought it might have been Gloria, the Dr.'s assistant from the beginning, for the longest time, regardless of gender.KAV wrote:I was shocked. I completely thought it was the doctor (Mr. Sneekers) or Connie's old boyfriend (Rex). I kept focusing on the hand sanitizer comments. Both of those characters kept using it, but there was no mention of George ever washing his hands.
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Yes. I was definitely looking at the minor characters for connections. They usually make the best culprits.bookowlie wrote:Good catch! I don't remember the little mentions of who used hand sanitizer. I sometimes think there is a reason why a minor character is put in the story. That's why I thought of Mr. Sneekers, the lawyer's boyfriend, and even the janitor early in the story. The author did a great job of misdirection.KAV wrote:I was shocked. I completely thought it was the doctor (Mr. Sneekers) or Connie's old boyfriend (Rex). I kept focusing on the hand sanitizer comments. Both of those characters kept using it, but there was no mention of George ever washing his hands.