by Ace Atkins
First published 2025
Addison McKellar thought she knew her husband Dean. Their marriage had problems, but she never expected him to vanish without a trace. When Dean disappears from their Memphis home, Addison grows increasingly worried as his friends refuse to talk and the police brush off her concerns. She turns to Porter Hayes, a veteran private investigator and old friend of her father. Together they start unraveling Dean's double life. The man Addison married was not the devoted businessman and father he appeared to be. Porter and Addison discover connections between Dean and a hook-handed mercenary, one of Elvis Presley's former leading ladies, and someone impersonating an FBI agent. Dean had become entangled in dangerous international schemes that put him on the wrong side of ruthless killers. Now these same people want revenge, and they view Addison and her children as acceptable targets to settle the debt Dean left behind.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Memphis
Period: 21st-century
384 pages · Paperback · William Morrow Paperbacks
Content warnings: violence