I am about halfway though the book, and so far I have several predictions that I am excited to see possibly play out. The first of these is that Alice fled of her own free will the night of her disappearance, and this is a result of her failing marriage. The night of the accident and Alice’s vanishing is told from Virgil’s narrative, and the police are questioning Robert about where Alice is before she had officially been missing, the book says, “I assumed she was with you. His [Gideon’s] face was twisted with grief”(Picoult 77). For some reason- presumably that Alice and Gideon were having an affair- Robert immediately assumed that Alice was without a doubt with Gideon, and Gideon had a reason to be grief-stricken/guilt, which is sufficient