First published 2012
Detective Mitchell Landry stares at another empty house in Darling Vista Park. The wives keep vanishing. One after another, the women of Portsmouth, Rhode Island simply disappear without explanation. Landry searches for patterns among the abandoned husbands. He looks for shared connections, common threads that might explain why these particular women were taken. The detective questions each husband, studying their lives for clues about means, motive, and opportunity. But the similarities he finds might be nothing more than coincidence. As Landry digs deeper into the missing women's lives, his own grief surfaces. His wife took her own life, leaving him with questions that have no answers. Now he faces a new mystery that may prove equally unsolvable. The investigation forces Landry to confront both the disappearances plaguing his community and the suicide that shattered his world.
Genres: mystery, crime, detective, psychological-thriller
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: grief, mystery, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Darling Vista Park, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Period: Contemporary
23 pages · Kindle Edition · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: depression, suicide