2-3-4 Challenge Book Discussions #1 discussion

Frank and Sarah eliminated Amos Potter as a suspect solely because he offered Frank money to find the killer. Did you agree with their point of view at the time?

I thought it was a silly way to look at it. After all he was really trying to bribe Frank to name Calvin as the killer and thus end the investigation!

I couldn’t understand why this threw them off so. Amos never left my list. Their perspective was so flawed.

Yes, they were too easily mislead by this.

Amos kept insisting that Calvin was the killer and even offered Frank a reward for finding the killer. It just made me think he was trying to get the case closed quickly. He was my number one suspect.

I was surprised Frank crossed him off so quickly. I'm not that surprised by Sarah doing it though. She's still new when it comes to detective work and still naïve to certain things. This was apparent in the last book when she didn't suspect the killer to be the killer because of some silly reasoning (can't pin point it right now but it almost got her killed). I'm glad Calvin's killer was caught though. If it weren't tied to Blackwell's murder no one probably would have investigated it because it looked like a suicide and his family had no money for a bribe.

In the last book, the killer gave them an alibi that they didn’t follow up on. Then when they did, Sarah just didn’t believe he had it in him to kill anyone based on her childhood relationship with him.

This time, the folly is Frank’s. His logic was definitely flawed.

Jonetta wrote: "In the last book, the killer gave them an alibi that they didn’t follow up on. Then when they did, Sarah just didn’t believe he had it in him to kill anyone based on her childhood relationship with..."

Yes that was it. Both are showing signs of flawed logic which I wouldn't expect. Hopefully as the series progresses this won't be a theme.