This Book Will Bury Me

Mistress finds a source inside Delphine’s police department and learns that it has no leads. There was no evidence left at the crime scene. This is unheard of and shocks the group. Jane combs through social-media evidence and finds that Larissa recently had a “bad breakup,” making her ex-boyfriend the group’s first suspect.

Larissa’s ex is named Chandler Gray. When Jane asks Mistress to see if her police contact can find information on him, the group learns that the police have apparently been working that angle and found out that Larissa called Chandler nearly 24 times on the night she died. The group decides to share this bit of information with the entire Real Crime Network. The forum goes wild, and various people share their investigative plans.

In retrospect, Jane notes that feeding the clue to the entire network would prove to be a mistake.

The internet explodes again, this time in condemnation of Chandler Gray. Jane is unsurprised: Chandler is an affluent frat boy and a serial cheater. She knows that some of the backlash is unwarranted, but the sleuthing community looks down on fraternities, seeing them as “cesspools” of toxic masculinity and racism. Moreover, Chandler and Larissa appear to have had an unstable relationship and argued often.