So when her mother is found shot to death in Mr. But Tina soon learns that the Greyhill fortune was made from a life of corruption and crime. Her mother quickly found work as a maid for a prominent family, headed by Roland Greyhill, one of the city's most respected business leaders. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home. In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn't exist. A dog.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl in this enthralling murder mystery set in Kenya. A face in a window, surrounded by orange light. At the same time my knees hit the ground, I feel a strong hand gripping my elbow. Probably the mokele-mbembe, come out of the water on his scaly legs, swinging his dragon tail, licking his dragon teeth and ready to slurp me up. Nothing to see by other than a distant pulse of lightning. There’s a clearing ahead, beyond the creek. My head feels like a melon on a stick, pulling me sideways. I am hot, dripping sweat, and now my feet are singing with pain and I remember a stony path. How long have I been standing here? I step back. My thoughts come slowly, like the mud that is breaking below my weight and splashing into the creek. There is nothing but this creek and dripping leaves and the shrill of insects. I’m in the forest, but I don’t remember getting here. My toes curl in the soft mud at the edge, my legs toying with the idea of leaping in, not wanting to be stilled. You’re not going to do anything to get us out of here.” “I don’t know what you want me to do! I don’t know who you think I am!” “I think you’re the same girl you’ve always been! You’re Tiny Girl! You’re a thief and a survivor! Somebody who doesn’t Some part of me registers the surprise and hurt in his eyes, but the rest of me curls inward. Work with me here.” “ There’s nothing we can do.” “Maybe if-” “I said there’s nothing we can do!” I snarl. He tortured my mother and controlled me like a puppet, and I let him. One that will give me some direction, some purpose. I go through my rules in my head, searching for one that will make sense of all of this. What can I do? I can’t rescue Michael-Mr. I can watch until I don’t want to see any more and then I can just jump into the sky and be gone.
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