by Chris Mooney
First published 2004
Mike Sullivan ignores his wife's worried pleas and takes six-year-old Sarah sledding as a blizzard approaches. He waits at the bottom while his headstrong daughter climbs the dangerous hill with a friend. Sarah never returns. Mike faces a parent's ultimate terror. His child has disappeared without a trace. His marriage crumbles under the weight of grief and blame. Police suspect a former priest who lost his position, but they cannot prove his involvement in any wrongdoing. Mike searches desperately for answers while his world collapses around him. The truth about Sarah's fate may lie buried in Mike's own psychological breakdown, or it could be connected to dark secrets from his family's history. Someone knows exactly what happened to Sarah, and that knowledge threatens to destroy what remains of Mike's life.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, psychological-thriller, family-drama
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: missing-person, psychological-thriller, unreliable-narrator
320 pages · Hardcover · Atria Books
Content warnings: child-death, mental-illness