and they discover that for all the evil Jacob committed while alive, his worst secret is still to be revealed. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more sinister. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong.

FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D D Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. which points to a dangerous and chilling present-day crime. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner unites three of her most beloved characters-Detective D D Warren, Flora Dane, and Kimberly Quincy-in a twisty new thriller, as they investigate a mysterious murder from the past. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim''s wary family tells Frankie she''s on her own-and she soon learns she''s asking questions someone doesn''t want answered. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. But she spends her life doing what no one else will-searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings.

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