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I know I'm responding to an old comment, but I don't think this holds up in terms of how there would be no evidence. If they were being carried off while impaled, there would be clear trails of blood beginning exactly at the spot where they vanished. They probably also would have lost at least one shoe between the two of them. And the forest was searched extensively for a long time; a buck wouldn't be actively trying to hide the bodies. He would eventually just toss them off, and probably sooner rather than later, because even for small kids, we're talking like 60-90 pounds of visual obstruction hanging off of each antler.
I am with Abby. No evidence. Someone cleaned up the evidence. That is evidence of a guilty soul. or they didn't die in the woods. Perhaps, they all did run off. perhaps Adam got separated being fat and slow, someone picked them up near a road to take them into Dublin and they disappeared. Maybe they reached Dublin, maybe they didn't.... Another possibility.
Maybe the woman with the gross scones was telling us the answer while talking about the crazy guy that was locked up then released and ran out into the woods.
Maybe Devlin lied. But I doubt it and he did it.
My money is on Adam. Last one to see them alive. He lies a lot. He says he can't remember but bits and pieces are all over the place. And he seems like a sociopath to me. often his reactions to things relaly aren't what they should be. Then there is his hatred of Rosalind at the end. i think he sees himself in her. He certainly doesn't love Cassie, the sex they had was about HIM. It was all about HIM. He needed that because he was lost in flash backs of the past. There is a way all of it has to play out. Cassie was just a tool to that end.
I think, Adam, did it. And it wasn't a fish in that river that the birds were going nutz for. He hated Rosalind, because she reminded him of himself. The way he had used Cassie, the way he had killed children, the way he could only tell what people were feeling from their body language. He read them. He never seemed to truly empathize with anyone. Cassie knew what he was. She told him as much. And yet she allowed herself to be used because she was that good a friend....
He never moved on from the past. It probably happened in the castle in the woods, and now he works in the castle solving murders. So murders and castles are clearly connected.
There are bones strewn all over this book as to what happened. And I think Tana French, told us just how to resolve it. Using Sam's method of colored highlighting. Create certain categories for different things then go through the book highlighting stuff.... Organize it all see what you get. I haven't done it yet. But it seems obvious to me. Because the only one rewarded is the one who got the girl. The one who was organized and methodical.
The answers are in the text. You just have to find them and start building with them, like finding bones to put together a skeleton.
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I know I'm responding to an old comment, but I don't think this holds up in terms of how there would be no evidence. If they were being carried off while impaled, there would be clear trails of blood beginning exactly at the spot where they vanished. They probably also would have lost at least one shoe between the two of them. And the forest was searched extensively for a long time; a buck wouldn't be actively trying to hide the bodies. He would eventually just toss them off, and probably sooner rather than later, because even for small kids, we're talking like 60-90 pounds of visual obstruction hanging off of each antler.
I am with Abby. No evidence. Someone cleaned up the evidence. That is evidence of a guilty soul. or they didn't die in the woods. Perhaps, they all did run off. perhaps Adam got separated being fat and slow, someone picked them up near a road to take them into Dublin and they disappeared. Maybe they reached Dublin, maybe they didn't.... Another possibility.Maybe the woman with the gross scones was telling us the answer while talking about the crazy guy that was locked up then released and ran out into the woods.
Maybe Devlin lied. But I doubt it and he did it.
My money is on Adam. Last one to see them alive. He lies a lot. He says he can't remember but bits and pieces are all over the place. And he seems like a sociopath to me. often his reactions to things relaly aren't what they should be. Then there is his hatred of Rosalind at the end. i think he sees himself in her. He certainly doesn't love Cassie, the sex they had was about HIM. It was all about HIM. He needed that because he was lost in flash backs of the past. There is a way all of it has to play out. Cassie was just a tool to that end.
I think, Adam, did it. And it wasn't a fish in that river that the birds were going nutz for. He hated Rosalind, because she reminded him of himself. The way he had used Cassie, the way he had killed children, the way he could only tell what people were feeling from their body language. He read them. He never seemed to truly empathize with anyone. Cassie knew what he was. She told him as much. And yet she allowed herself to be used because she was that good a friend....
He never moved on from the past. It probably happened in the castle in the woods, and now he works in the castle solving murders. So murders and castles are clearly connected.
There are bones strewn all over this book as to what happened. And I think Tana French, told us just how to resolve it. Using Sam's method of colored highlighting. Create certain categories for different things then go through the book highlighting stuff.... Organize it all see what you get. I haven't done it yet. But it seems obvious to me. Because the only one rewarded is the one who got the girl. The one who was organized and methodical.
The answers are in the text. You just have to find them and start building with them, like finding bones to put together a skeleton.
I think this theory also has more merit, when we remember that Cassie's parents were killed in a car crash that was caused by them running into a stag. I think there is some significance there.
As other theories have put forth, this could be connected to the pooka, and the god Pan, who is a shapeshifter, and perhaps could take the form of a stag.