In Tim Weaver' s new novel, David Raker must solve both an ancient murder and an unexplained disappearance.
Forty years ago, the ground collapsed behind her. Now she' s back. But is it really her?
Rebecca was three years old when her mother, Fiona, quietly disappeared out the door one day and never showed up again. The family hadn' t heard from her for almost forty years. However, after her brother' s funeral, Rebeka receives an unsigned condolence card. She doesn' t know if her mother sent him. but something tells her she did.
Rebeka decides to find out what happened to Fiona years ago, why she left her children so suddenly, and why she never tried to contact them again. So he turns to private investigator David Raker. He agrees to help her, even though it is an unusual case for him in many ways. But the more he unravels the threads of the entire puzzle, the more detailed a story full of mystery, pain, loss, and death unfolds before him. And the monster who started writing it has far from said its last word.
The demons of Fiona' s past are all too alive, and to make matters worse, David has to deal with skeletons in his own closet. The kind that could send him behind bars. or straight to his grave.
