Gone-Girl-by-Gillian-Flynn

woodshed, and we tell them Amy is framing me.’
‘I think that is a bad idea in general, and right now it’s a really bad idea if
we don’t have Andie on our side, because we’d have to tell them about
Andie.’
‘Why?’
‘Because if we go to the cops with your story, that Amy framed you—’
‘Why do you keep saying my story, like it’s something I made up?’
‘Ha. Good point. If we explain to the cops how Amy is framing you, we
have to explain why she is framing you. Why: because she found out you have
a very pretty, very young girlfriend on the side.’
‘Do we really have to tell them that?’ I asked.
‘Amy framed you for her murder because … she was … what, bored?’
I swallowed my lips.
‘We have to give them Amy’s motive, it doesn’t work otherwise. But the
problem is, if we set Andie, gift-wrapped, on their doorstep, and they don’t
buy the frame-up theory, then we’ve given them your motive for murder.
Money problems, check. Pregnant wife, check. Girlfriend, check. It’s a
murderer’s triumvirate. You’ll go down. Women will line up to tear you apart
with their fingernails.’ He began pacing. ‘But if we don’t do anything, and
Andie goes to them on her own …’
‘So what do we do?’ I asked.
‘I think the cops will laugh us out of the station if we say right now that
Amy framed you. It’s too flimsy. I believe you, but it’s flimsy.’
‘But the treasure hunt clues—’ I started.
‘Nick, even I don’t understand those clues,’ Go said. ‘They’re all inside
baseball between you and Amy. There’s only your word that they’re leading
you into … incriminating situations. I mean, seriously: crummy jeans and
visor equals Hannibal?’
‘Little brown house equals your dad’s house, which is blue,’ Tanner
added.
I could feel Tanner’s doubt. I needed to really show him Amy’s character.
Her lies, her vindictiveness, her score-settling. I needed other people to back
me up – that my wife wasn’t Amazing Amy but Avenging Amy.