This song first caught my ear when it came on shuffle as I was reading Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects. It’s the perfect accompaniment to a sleuthing story — picture a montage of a detective decoding a victim’s journal or charting GPS coordinates. Or, in the case of one of my current projects, an editor piecing together a former reporter’s field notes to figure out what landed her in a mental institution.
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