Ann Nash is the first victim.
Life[]
Ann Nash is a nine-year-old girl who was found dead in a creek in the middle of the woods outside Wind Gap several months before the start of the novel. Ann had been strangled—and all of her teeth removed—when she was found by police. When Natalie Keene is murdered, the similarities between the girls’ deaths spark an investigation. Natalie and Ann were both being tutored by Adora, and as Camille learns more about her mother’s insidious secrets and murderous ways, she believes that Adora is responsible. Indeed, Adora is arrested for the girls’ murders—but after Camille takes Amma to live with her in Chicago and a third little girl winds up dead with missing teeth, Camille realizes that Amma—threatened by her mothers’ affection for Ann and Natalie—was the killer all along, and pulled their teeth in order to complete the ivory floor in one of the rooms of her dollhouse.