Thirty years later, they gather with their families for their coach's funeral and a weekend at a house on a lake where they used to party.

A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. Parents Guide. Once again I'm out of Flynn material to read. I liked the twist(s) at the end, but I was more looking for that ghost/supernatural aspect. I really enjoyed the ending which left you with a big question mark. the plot was a little lacking, but it was a short story & only 64 pages so i guess that makes sense lol. Then a strange woman comes into the shop and things begin to get even more complicated for our narrator. The narrator recalls the filthy apartment of her upbringing, and by the time she reached high school she realized that she could run a scam better than her mother and was often making more money begging that her mother could so she dropped out of the school and moved out of the apartment. For my first Flynn, it really wasn't bad for the most part. Intent on spending the 4th of July weekend with their families and catch up with the old buddies, the team of Lenny, the successful talent agent; Eric, the furniture company co-owner; Kurt, the stay-at-home-dad; Rob, the man with a history of divorces, and Marcus, the womaniser, rent an isolated lake house to continue where they left off. read it for the first time in the Rogues anthology and loved it. Can't wait for whatever she comes up with next.

I know some have loved this and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Of course her name guarantees the ridiculous price. Was it just a reason to keep the narrator coming back? Would she harm the other child if she is just as crazy? Knowing what to say to people from her years of begging on the street with her mother, the narrator is a natural at pretending to be a psychic, but when a strange customer demands more of her that what she thinks she can give, the real game begins. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The nerdy narrator is clearly the victim- but to have all the pieces in place for Susan to finance the operation to get the narrator to the home, was she somehow in on it too and this was just a way to get rid of Miles? The story was originally part of an anthology and possibly I would have liked it better there, surrounded by other writers and other stories. I feel like we got classic Gillian Flynn in this one, which I always enjoy, but thought it was going to be a bit different. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore.

She can make educated guesses about a person from the way they carry themselves, how they dress. (written for George R. R. Martin), Yep, it's dark, Yep, it's creepy-weird, and Yep, it has an ill-fated ambiguous ending and a nameless narrator.