by Harlan Coben
First published 2025
Sami Kierce wakes up in Spain covered in blood. A knife rests in his hand. His girlfriend Anna lies dead beside him. He remembers nothing about what happened. Terror overwhelms him and he runs. Twenty-two years pass. Kierce works as a private investigator in New York City, taking surveillance jobs and teaching night classes to pay his debts. He's a new father trying to build a different life. Then one evening he spots a face he knows in the back of his classroom. Anna. The woman he left dead in Spain decades ago. She sees him looking and flees immediately. Kierce faces an impossible choice. He could let her disappear again and continue his quiet life. Or he could chase the mystery that has consumed him since that blood-soaked morning. The investigation will force him to confront everything he thought he knew about that day in Spain and discover what really happened to Anna.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: second-chance, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Spain, New York City
Period: Twenty-two years
341 pages · Hardcover · Grand Central Publishing
Content warnings: violence