by Lisa Gardner
First published 2024
Frankie Elkin specializes in finding forgotten missing persons. Her latest case arrives with an impossible deadline. Kaylee Pierson, the notorious "Beautiful Butcher" who murdered eighteen men, sits on death row with three weeks left to live. Pierson confessed immediately and refused all appeals. She earned her nickname by luring victims from bars and slitting their throats. Now she wants Frankie to locate her sister Leilani, who vanished in Hawaii twelve years ago when she was five years old. The prime suspect was Pierson's former boyfriend, tech mogul Sanders MacManus. Fresh evidence has surfaced at MacManus's remote Pacific island project. Frankie goes undercover at the isolated camp, surrounded by strangers harboring dangerous secrets. She has no way to call for help. A storm approaches the island. Frankie races against time to uncover the truth about what happened to Leilani while trapped in an increasingly perilous situation.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: dangerous-secrets, race-against-time, trapped
Setting: Hawaii, Pacific Island
Period: Present Day
416 pages · Hardcover · Grand Central Publishing
Content warnings: murder, violence