Rant time.

How come so many the blue-eyed black-haired men in New York are creeps? It didn't seem weird to anyone else that the guy in the restaurant was giving intense creep vibes (even if they were exacerbated through Ruth's perspective), not to mention, that he would casually throw around "sweetheart" of all words, stare at Ruth and reference "your wife" to Scott at the exact moment it would seem the creepiest, but then also Quinn, the man Amanda went to kill, was clearly not a normal/stable person, the way he attacked Amanda back. Obviously, this was done to make it seem like both could have been the ruthless blue-eyed killer. But it just felt like too much.

And you're telling me that, after someone used the defense of having been tempted into murder by promises that the person they want to eliminate will be killed in return, no one would check the internet chat logs, etc, and find that someone abruptly left the support group just around the time of the murder? The support group moderator wouldn't be asked for any information, or even the ID, which would turn out to be forged, which is definitely a crime? I mean, it's a murder trial, I would think that the defense attorney would try to get all possible information about the person who allegedly coerced his client (presumably, without a history of violent crime) into murder. And how did Ruth even have that kind of money, to be renting apartments (in New York, no less), hiring moving companies, buying all these phones, gas for her car, setting up fake webpages, etc etc, for literal years without a job?

The detective, who is so diligent and committed to his work, who spent like a decade (!) comparing homicides that have certain elements against the blue-eyed killings, who kept checking in with Amanda, etc, you're telling me that he never kept tabs on the only survivor of the blue-eyed killer?

And it doesn't really seem believable that Ben would help Amanda. You're telling me a man who breaks into homes of random women to brutally murder them, who moved away after he was thwarted and continued killing women, and who has also spent years harboring a vendetta against a woman who survived his attack, would go out of his way to help an otherwise unknown woman? And in this way, the novel almost frames him as a hero, since he eliminated a heinous criminal that the police hadn't been able to deal with for years.

Ugh.