by Lee Child
First published 2013
Pericles "Perry" Christo sits in his cramped office on a bitter February night when wealthy socialite Julia Drusilla arrives with a case. The Upper East Side matron needs him to find her missing daughter Angelina, who stands to inherit a fortune. Christo takes the job. He needs the money after losing his police badge in a corruption scandal that cost him everything. As he searches the frozen streets of New York and the back roads of the Hamptons, Christo discovers that beautiful "Angel" Drusilla hides dangerous secrets. Nothing about this case matches what her mother told him. Everyone he meets lies to him. The deeper he digs into Angelina's disappearance, the more he realizes this straightforward missing person case threatens to destroy what little he has left. In the gray winter landscape, Christo must navigate a web of betrayal and deception to find the truth about the heiress before it kills him.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: deception, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Hamptons, New York
Period: February
288 pages · Kindle Edition · Touchstone