Maybe Ricky and Mallory have something true that in each other. In all of the hurt and pain, all of the struggle just to survive, maybe there’s a glimpse of hope for the future.
In another book, Friday Fitzhugh would have been a supporting character, the girl best friend of the boy-genius detective. In the books we all probably read or had read to us, we saw the small-town detectives and their trusty sidekicks who solved all of the mysteries in Smalltown, USA.
