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* BerserkButton: Roddy ''really'' does not believe in the placebo effect, and mentioning it is a great way to spark an endless, borderline incoherent rant. This is a particular sore spot with Roddy because the placebo effect explains away the supposed benefits of his unique "diet," and he can't accept that.
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* CommonalityConnection: Holly can't help but notice throughout the novel how Bonnie's and Penny's relationship heavily reminds her of her relationship with her [[MyBelovedSmother overly controlling, highly possessive]] mother, who passes away at the start of the book.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Both their academic backgrounds and the perceived effectiveness of their "diet" cause the Harrises to have a grotesquely inflated sense of their own intelligence. [[spoiler:However, not only does their cannibal diet not work, but Izzy states that their criminal methods were so slipshod that they could have been caught way sooner had COVID not been straining the police force.]]
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Both their academic backgrounds and the perceived effectiveness of their "diet" cause the Harrises to have a grotesquely inflated sense of their own intelligence. [[spoiler:However, not only does their cannibal diet not work, but Izzy states that their criminal methods were so slipshod that they could have been caught way sooner had COVID not been straining the police force.]]]] What's more, despite believing that they were respected/loved by their associates and students, Holly's investigation reveals that many of the people who knew the Harrises found them either odd or disturbing (with many students dropping Rodney's classes because of his "screamy" lectures about the importance of meat).
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* TastesLikeFriendship: Several times, Holly and/or Jerome get their interviewees to open up to them by buying them drinks (i.e. Jerome got the middle school boys to tell them about Peter Steinman by buying them milkshakes, Holly got one of Bonnie's ex's friends to talk to her by buying him coffee, etc).
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When the Harris' basement prison and slaughterhouse are discovered, the DA is mad at Holly [[spoiler:for killing them in self-defense]] because it would have been the trial of the century, and now he has no one to prosecute.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When the Harris' basement prison and slaughterhouse are discovered, the DA is mad at Holly [[spoiler:for killing them in self-defense]] because it would have been the trial of the century, and now he has no one to prosecute. Of course, the reader knows that Rodney and Emily were perfectly willing to commit suicide with cyanide pills in case their crimes would ever be discovered, meaning there likely wouldn't have been a trial even if Holly didn't kill them herself.
