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Named a BEST BOOK by People Magazine, Boston Globe, BookBub, PopSugar, CrimeReads and more.
“Brilliant…. A well-crafted psychological thriller.” —The New York Times Book Review
When former journalist Rain Winter was twelve years old, she narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend’s house. The abductor was eventually found…
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Unger excels at slow-burn psychological thrillers bursting with secrets, and this is no exception.
The concept is chilling—the recent (and unsolved) slaying of a murderer who escaped justice brings back painful memories and hard questions for a woman, Rain Winter, whose childhood abductor—and killer of her friend—was also murdered after the fact. A radio journalist now at home with her baby, Rain decides to investigate whether a vigilante killer is at work.
Twist after twist kept me guessing all the way to the shocking revelations at the end. Unger is right up there with Karin Slaughter as one of my…
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