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Mamo (Grandmother) tells Grania about her past, about what caused her deafness.

Gilbert, Sybil's son, had wanted to give to give his $43 to a homeless woman, but when he tried, she was gone.

A long letter to her daughter Fiona. There's a major character named Fiona in "Shameless" that I've been watching. I pictured her as I was reading.

Mick asks Sybil to marry him. She was 75 at one point, but the letters are a mess, and it's hard to know for sure. I'm not sure who Mick is anyway, and the book is almost finished.

Who's Theodore? Too many minor characters you lose track of. Letters don't help.This book desperately needs an intro where Evans could tell us who these people are.

Sybil's daughter is angry with her for not attending her ex-husband's funeral.

Sybil has a 49% DNA match. She contacts her.

It's hard to keep track of these people, but Daan is Sybil's ex-husband; he dies and leaves her money. She wasn't expecting anything.

Sybil letters from the 1950's, others from 2015. She takes a DNA test; she's British, Native American, and Russian.

Mrs. Antwerp and a man named Mick are exchanging letters.

Sybil and Mick are corresponding. He invites her to dinner. I don't know if they'd met in person. I don't think so.

Sybil seems to have been adopted. There's a letter from her mother to her adoptive parents.

All letters (epistolary). I don't know these people yet. Perhaps an introduction introducing them would've helped.

Mike Lunde wants Bob to help him kill himself.

The killer's motivation: "The worst thing is to go on living after the people you love have all been killed. . ."

Apparently Gomez is Lobo, "a cold-blooded, brutal killing machine".

Olav Hanson, one of the good guys, has a confrontation with the taxidermist who wants to stuff him.

Could the killer be a "moth"? A moth seems attracted to the investigation of the murder they committed.

A possible suspect is spotted at a porn movie. He's a pastor.

Bob Oz has a plan. Gomez is a taxidermist customer. He wants his cat back.

Bob and Kay seems to have a bead on the killer, as does Olav Hanson.

Bob Oz recognizes Tomas Gomez as the shooter, but he's in the doghouse with the other homicide cops.

Bob Oz is a suspended police officer who contends with a possible serial killer. We are introduced to a taxidermist who makes a point of interacting with Oz. We're thinking this guy is the killer. When they are introduced, they talk about loneliness. The taxidermist recognizes somebody just as lonely as he is.

The shooter meets a cop at a shooting range. They talk.

Alice, apparently a shrink, reflects on her relationship with Bob, the homicide detective.

Bob Oz doesn't seem to have a lot of fans among the other detectives.

Homicide cops Kay Myers and Bob Oz are on the trail of a killer who seems to want to get caught.

Bob Oz, a homicide detective, is hustling a barmaid named Liza. She's not buying it. He hands her a rubber.

A hit man shoots someone from the window of an apartment building.
We're inside his head. That's a ploy some modern writers use to give
the villain some humanity.

Almost done. Titov, the head Russian, is still around at the Canadian border.