Part of KEY News, book 3
First published 2001
Laura Walsh works as a producer at KEY News, where she creates video obituaries for celebrities before they die. The morbid assignment becomes personal when a famous colleague falls from a Manhattan rooftop shortly after Laura completed her pre-recorded death notice. Laura discovers the dead woman's past connects to a decades-old mystery at Palisades Park. Thirty years earlier, two boys snuck into the amusement park to ride the Cyclone roller coaster in the dark. Only one boy returned when the ride ended. The other vanished without explanation. As Laura digs deeper into both cases, she uncovers shocking links between the missing child, her dead colleague, and her own life. Someone wants these secrets buried and will kill to protect them. Laura realizes she may be preparing her final obituary.
Genres: suspense, mystery, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: secrets, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Palisades Park, Manhattan, New York
Period: Thirty Years Ago, Present Day
338 pages · Mass Market Paperback · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Content warnings: death, murder