Part of Eve Duncan, book 12
First published 2011
Eve Duncan rebuilds faces from fragments of bone. She gives names to children who died nameless. Each reconstruction brings peace to grieving families, but Eve carries her own wound. Her daughter Bonnie vanished years ago without a trace. CIA agent Catherine Ling arrives with information that changes everything. Catherine knows the pain of losing a child. She and Eve formed their partnership searching for Catherine's missing son. Now Catherine brings Eve a name: John Gallo. Gallo should be dead. Eve believed he was dead. But someone matching his description appeared in Atlanta just before Bonnie disappeared. The timing cannot be coincidence. Eve must dig into her own buried past to understand what Gallo means. She must face memories she has kept locked away. The man who once meant everything to her might hold the key to her daughter's fate. This investigation will force Eve to confront the deepest secrets of her early life and the truth about what happened to Bonnie.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Atlanta, CIA
Period: Present Day
378 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: child-death