by Lisa Gardner
Part of Detective D.D. Warren, book 9
First published 2016
Flora Dane endured 472 days as a kidnapped college student before miraculously escaping her captor. Five years later, she works with FBI victim advocate Samuel Keynes to rebuild her life. Her bedroom wall displays photos of missing girls who never returned home. When Boston Detective D.D. Warren arrives at a crime scene, she finds a dead man and Flora standing over him, bound but victorious. Warren discovers Flora has killed three other suspects since her return to society. The detective must determine whether Flora acts as victim or vigilante. A new abduction rocks Boston when another college student disappears. Flora possesses firsthand knowledge of criminal behavior that could help rescue the missing girl. Then Flora herself vanishes. Warren realizes a more dangerous predator has emerged, one determined to ensure Flora never escapes again. Warren must race against time to locate Flora before her captor succeeds where others failed.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: cat-and-mouse, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Boston
Period: Contemporary
416 pages · Hardcover · Dutton
Content warnings: kidnapping, violence