Cameron's character was just the regular annoying, whiny kind of loser who blames everybody else for his "hard" life.

The uncovering of the truth about Erik’s death and its impact on Tova’s life forms a crucial part of the narrative. She, (and Marcellus-who is more observant than ANY human) will find themselves involved in the mystery about what brought the “new guy” to town-JUST the stimulation a bored Octopus needed!

I went down the internet octopus rabbit hole, which is a fantastic place to be, and found out more about that octopus. Cameron arrives in Seattle and, after purchasing a used camper van to sleep in, drives to Sowell Bay where Simon lives. It was also a lesson and how two lonely souls, one elderly and one young, found each other, became friends and were so respectful of each other. This story begins 1,299 days after Marcellus was captured, after he’d been taken from his home and robbed of his freedom, and left in this small space, surrounded by glass walls.

I listened to Shelby Van Pelt's book, Remarkably Bright Creatures, on audiobook and I highly recommend listening to the book. But she has this bigger grief, which is really a grief of unknowns; of her son who had disappeared, and she never had any closure.Both of these strange and freshly-imagined stories go deeper into uncharted territory for the mystery novel. But the atmosphere quickly shifts from risqué to downright risky after two fellow working girls go missing. The Lincoln Highway: In 1950s America, Emmett Watson is released from a work farm after a year in prison.