07/23/2018
In 1987, Jonah Baum’s wife, Rebecca, and their seven-year-old daughter, Sally, disappear from their home in Ivers, Vt., in this muddled thriller from Thriller Award finalist Rickstad (The Names of Dead Girls). In spite of an intensive search overseen by Sheriff Maurice Welch, they are never found, and Jonah becomes a pariah. Twenty-five years later, Lucinda Welch, Maurice’s daughter and Sally’s childhood friend, is now deputy sheriff when another seven-year-old girl, an abused child who’s never named, goes missing. Jonah finds the girl, who reminds him strongly of Sally. Both protective and possessive of her, he cares for the child’s needs in his isolated cabin outside town, but doesn’t report her missing. Meanwhile, Lucinda struggles with her terrible memories of Sally’s disappearance, as well as Maurice’s fragile mental and physical state, as she gradually unravels both present and past cases. The rickety narrative, which shifts awkwardly among the viewpoints of Lucinda, the hapless Jonah, and the missing girl’s abusive parents, ends on an improbably happy note. With any luck, Rickstad will do better next time. Agent: Philip G. Spitzer, Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency. (July)
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Girls comes this chilling, harrowing thriller set in rural Vermont about a recluse who believes the young girl he's found in the woods is the reincarnation of his missing daughter, returned to help him solve her and his wife's disappearance.
I won't say a word. Cross my heart and hope to die...
Jonah Baum, a professor of poetry at a local college in Vermont, sees his ordinary life come tumbling down when his wife and young daughter vanish from their home. No evidence of a kidnapping. No sign of murder. No proof that Rebecca didn't simply abandon her marriage. Just Sally's crude and chilling drawings, Jonah's little lies, and the sheriff's nagging fears that nothing is what it seems.
For Sally's best friend, Lucinda, it's something else. She trusts in Sally not to just disappear, not after they've shared so many secrets-especially about the woods and what they saw there. But she'll never tell. No one would believe her anyway.
As the search for Rebecca and Sally intensifies, and as suspicion falls on Jonah, the disappearances become more relentlessly haunting than anyone can imagine. Because what's seen in the light of day is not nearly as terrifying as what remains hidden in the dark...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Girls comes this chilling, harrowing thriller set in rural Vermont about a recluse who believes the young girl he's found in the woods is the reincarnation of his missing daughter, returned to help him solve her and his wife's disappearance.
I won't say a word. Cross my heart and hope to die...
Jonah Baum, a professor of poetry at a local college in Vermont, sees his ordinary life come tumbling down when his wife and young daughter vanish from their home. No evidence of a kidnapping. No sign of murder. No proof that Rebecca didn't simply abandon her marriage. Just Sally's crude and chilling drawings, Jonah's little lies, and the sheriff's nagging fears that nothing is what it seems.
For Sally's best friend, Lucinda, it's something else. She trusts in Sally not to just disappear, not after they've shared so many secrets-especially about the woods and what they saw there. But she'll never tell. No one would believe her anyway.
As the search for Rebecca and Sally intensifies, and as suspicion falls on Jonah, the disappearances become more relentlessly haunting than anyone can imagine. Because what's seen in the light of day is not nearly as terrifying as what remains hidden in the dark...
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940170384594 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 07/24/2018 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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