Casey moved with Diana when she relocated to escape him and is in a relationship based on casual sex with an ex-con bartender named Kurt. Diana has since married and divorced Graham Berry, her abusive ex-husband, a respected lawyer and "brilliant psycho," who often beat Diana, once attempting to kill her. Casey is still friends with Diana, as their relationship was strengthened after Diana remained with her after her attack and has kept the secret of Blaine's murder since she confessed after Diana found her changing out of her bloodstained clothing. She has developed a bizarre game of Russian roulette in which she tells her therapists what she has done, believing that if she deserves to be caught, she will be. Her parents died in a small plane crash years ago. Twelve years later, Casey is a detective with the Special Victims Unit. Afterwards, she throws away the gun and calls 911 anonymously, giving a description of the gang members. When he continues to refuse to apologize or take responsibility for his actions, she shoots him in the heat of the moment, killing him.
He has since denied abandoning her, claiming they split up. Several weeks later, after waking from a four-day coma, Casey seeks out Blaine who she blames for leaving her for dead and not calling the police, as she was only found hours after the attack by a drunken stranger. Instead, he runs away and she is presumably raped after being beaten unconscious. After their leader threatens Casey, she disarms them, expecting Blaine to grab the gun so they can escape. One night as Casey and Blaine cut through an alley after leaving a bar, several gang members attack them and accuse Blaine of trespassing on their turf. Her high school friend Diana is attending a nearby community college and living with her. She is dating Blaine Saratori, a small-time drug dealer who brags he is the grandson of a mobster in Montreal.
Plot summary Īt age eighteen, Casey Duncan is attending police college to become a detective, much to the disapproval of her parents, who are both prominent doctors. In June 2018, it was announced that Temple Street Productions had acquired television rights for the Rockton series which begins with City of the Lost. After fleeing to the town with her best friend Diana, Casey begins to investigate a string of grisly murders as she attempts to uncover the killer in their midst. It follows homicide detective Casey Duncan in the hidden Rockton, a small, off-the-grid town in the wilderness of the Canadian Yukon where people go when they wish to disappear. City of the Lost is a 2016 crime fiction novel written by Kelley Armstrong.
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