Welcome to Case Closed. You're listening to every time I go on vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack, narrated by Elizabeth Evans. Let's pick up where we left off last time.

Breaking the Fourth Wall. Okay, so let's take a little break here and bring you into this.

That's right, it's your turn to solve it.

Why?

Because we've reached the third act of this thing.

What's that, you ask?

Well, in a classic three-act structure, which applies to most books and

movies, the first act is the setup, generally the first third of the book. The second act is the

main engine of the story, middle third, where the protagonist, that's me, faces multiple

obstacles and dangers. Hello, someone tried to kill me. And the third act is where the

main story and all of its subplots get resolved. The third act also includes the climax of the book,

where everything gets super tense as all the threads the author has been doling out intertwine,

and then, boom, the central question of the novel is resolved, and the remaining

characters can go about their new lives armed with the knowledge they've acquired over the

course of the book, about themselves and their relationships.

Ideally, the main character grows, changes, and emerges in a better place.

That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. I'm not making

any promises about growing or changing. Anyway, to recap, in Act 1, Chapter 1 to Chapter 10,

you met the protagonist, again, me, and the antagonist, Connor, and learned that while I was planning on killing him off in my

next book, someone was planning on killing him off for real. You also learned about tensions with

my sister Harper and my messy relationship with my ex, Oliver, and met all the other potential

suspects, Guy, Allison, Emily, Sheikh, Isabella, and got some insight

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