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jefrye t1_j013ml7 wrote

One of the defining features of the mystery genre is that the mystery is solved at the end (just as one of the defining features of the romance genre is that the couple is together and happy at the end). An ambiguous ending wouldn't have gone over well with most readers and would be a marketing nightmare. If she'd wanted to do that, she probably would have had to market it completely different (maybe as lit fic?) with rewrites to match.

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