
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Never Never comes an ingenious & edgy suspense novel that will keep you guessing to the very last page 1246 13-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop 1247 Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her 1252 The girl is missing Six minutes
- that's all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey's life Accused but not convicted of Claire's abduction he escapes north to the steamy croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake Amanda Pharrell knows what it's like to be public enemy no 1 Maybe it's her murderous past that makes her so good as a private investigator tracking lost souls in the wilderness Her latest target missing author Jake Scully has a life more shrouded in secrets than her own
- so she enlists help from the one person in town more hated than she is Ted Conkaffey But the residents of Crimson Lake are watching the pair's every move & for Ted a man already at breaking point this town is offering no place to hide