On the 10th anniversary of a teenage girls disappearance, her cold case breaks open in dangerous ways…and threatens to tear apart her small Wisconsin town all over again in the masterfully twisty new psychological suspense novel from the internationally bestselling author of Twenty Years Later. For fans of Riley Sager, Anna Downes, Alex Finlay, Stacy Willingham, and Karin Slaughter. Ten years ago, 17-year-old high school volleyball star Callie Jones vanished from her quiet Wisconsin lake community. A highly publicized search followed but her body was never found. The case went cold, but the echoes still linger. Ethan Hall, a former renegade detective turned ER doctor, left law enforcement to escape the horrors of the kid crime division. But on the tenth anniversary of Callies disappearance, his former partner, Pete Kramer, makes a desperate request. Pete is the veteran detective who originally investigated the case. Now hes dying, and to ease his conscience and get closure for the Jones family, he needs Ethan to return to the haunting work he left behindand solve what happened to Callie, once and for all. Word soon spreads and everyone in the small town of Cherryview feels a rush of hope that answers will finally be found. Amid a sweltering heatwave, Ethans investigation gains momentum, but reexamining old evidence wont be enough. He needs a new way into the case, no matter how dangerous or unconventional. Soon Ethans methods draw him deeper into a twisted psychological game. Because there is much more to the nightmare of Callies disappearance than he imagined, including a connection with his own dark past . . and secrets that are still worth killing for.
