Status Updates From The Broken Girls

“She didn’t much like to think about how the murder had torn her family apart … It was easier to … obsess over how Christopher had dumped her sister’s body, something that had never been fully understood, since no footprints had been found in the field or the woods, no tire tracks” So there’s an element of paranormal in there, which makes sense with the reference she made to “monsters” in the prologue

“Her sister, age twenty, had been strangled and dumped in the middle of the former sports field on the abandoned grounds of Idlewild Hall in 1994 … Her boyfriend, Tim Christopher, … claimed he was innocent” Okay, damn
First thing I’m thinking: she’s right, it wasn’t him (or there wouldn’t be a book, and also there’s this thing about monsters that makes me think it’s about the school (not hospital) she was put in

“Tim Christopher was charged,” he said. “He was tried and convicted of Deb’s murder. He’s spent the past twenty years in a maximum-security prison. And, Fee, you’re still out there on Old Barrons Road at three o’clock in the morning.”
… “I need to know how he did it” I have to say: I get it. But I’m not sure it’s very healthy

“Of course you think they covered everything,” she said to Jamie, her voice coming out sharper than she intended. “You’re a cop. You have to believe it. In your world, a girl gets murdered, and Vermont’s greatest minds come together to solve the case and put the bad guys away.” Ouch

“On the other end of the line, she heard Jamie breathe. They’d been together for a year now … and he knew better than to say the usual empty words. It doesn’t matter. This won’t bring her back. He’s already in prison. It was twenty years ago; you need to move on.” Wait, so he’s in prison? What’s the problem, then? Is he not in prison for her sister’s murder?

“I started wondering how much traffic there is on Old Barrons Road in the middle of the night. … The cops always said it wasn’t possible that Tim Christopher could have left his car here for so long, unseen. But they never really tested that …”
… “This isn’t healthy … I know you think about your sister a lot. … But actually going to Idlewild—that’s different” So her sister was killed, but things aren’t adding up?

[MINOR SPOILER] “a sob burst from her throat. She wasn’t ready. She wasn’t. Despite everything that had happened—or perhaps because of it. Her blood still pumped; her broken body still ran for its life. And in a moment of pure, dark clarity, she understood that all of it was for nothing.
She’d always known the monsters were real.
And they were here.
The girl looked into the darkness and screamed.” ???

“She heard no sound behind her, but just like that, she knew. Even with the wind in her ears and the sound of her own feet, there was a murmur of something, a whisper she must have been attuned to, because when she turned her head this time, her neck creaking in protest, she saw the figure.” Oh no

“Her body still wasn’t quite right. Though she was fifteen, her breasts were small and she’d started bleeding only last year. The doctor had warned her there would be a delay, perfectly normal, a biological aftereffect of malnutrition.” So I’m guessing she was at a hospital where they mistreated her to keep her silent under the guise of treating her for something that was never even there?

“She made herself keep her gaze forward. To look back would be to tempt it. If she only looked forward, it would stay away.” What would?