#just woke upngojf back tonsleep now

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

benoit blanc gets hired to solve an ongoing lover's quarrel that's turned deadly. he quickly deduces that the killer is the husband's girlfriend, but then, as they're wrapping up, another murder occurs. the girlfriend's girlfriend is killed, and there are no immediately obvious first suspects. but slowly all clues start to point towards the original murderers husband as the killer! as he's being led to the cop car, a sniper takes him out! so now benoit has to investigate that murder! it ends up coming out that his wife's girlfriend's wife took him out for revenge. but while she's in the confession room, her husband mysteriously dies! blanc investigates and learns he died by arsenic poisoning- and his boyfriend happens to work at an arsenic factory! not the most clever murder, but blanc is confused as to how it has seemingly nothing to do with the previous string of murders. he fixates on this long after the police are willing to write it off. after deep, DEEP digging he learns that the arsenic factory worker was being blackmailed by his girlfriend's girlfriend's boyfriend's husband, and had no choice but to tragically murder his boyfriend- he made it obvious on purpose because he wanted to get caught. as blanc moves in to apprehend the blackmailer, the man in questions wife is tragically murdered. benoit and the cops arrive to arrest him only to find him sobbing over her broken body, her other boyfriend holding his hand. what on earth! as they investigate they learn she had a girlfriend with an extensive criminal record- but she has a rock solid alibi and seems genuinely heartbroken. you know who doesn't though? her best friend that's in love with her and has been jealous this whole time. after MONTHS of this nonsense benoit blanc, greatest detective in the world, traces thread after thread and discovers the original murder victim hired this best friend to kill the blackmailer's wife because they were political rivals and she thought he'd be too distraught to run against her if he was grieving. her own murder was completely unrelated and lead to the rest of the strings of death, but ultimately the woman she hired to kill didn't receive notification of her death because there was so much going on and it's hard to get news circulated to you when you aren't in the polycule yourself.

"foyer fuycks sake," beniot exclaims at the end of this mess, "Ah am nevah, evah, comin' baahck tah seayattle evah a-gayn!"