A Minute to Midnight

by David Baldacci

First published 2019

FBI agent Atlee Pine carries a wound that never healed. Thirty years ago in Andersonville, Georgia, someone took her six-year-old twin sister Mercy and left Atlee for dead. Their parents were downstairs partying. The abductor was never caught. Mercy was never found. Now Atlee has pushed too hard on a dangerous arrest and earned herself a leave of absence. She sees her chance and returns to Andersonville to dig for answers. One name still torments her: Daniel James Tor, the serial killer locked in a Colorado maximum security prison. Does he know what really happened to Mercy that night? Atlee's investigation pulls her into a web of murder and long-buried secrets. The deeper she digs, the more lies surface. Then she uncovers a revelation so personal it destroys everything she believed about that terrible night. Her search for Mercy becomes a fight for the truth about her own past.

Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller

Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful

Tropes: cold-case, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Andersonville, Georgia, Colorado

Period: 30 years ago

418 pages · Hardcover · Grand Central Publishing

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