Part of Eve Duncan, book 16
First published 2013
Eve Duncan has built her career reconstructing faces from skeletal remains. She brings answers to families whose loved ones have disappeared. Her own daughter Bonnie vanished at age seven, a wound that drove Eve's mission for years until she finally learned the truth. Now Jim Doane arrives at her door with charred bone fragments. His twenty-five-year-old son might be dead. Doane cannot involve police because of his own criminal history. He needs Eve's expertise to identify the remains. But Doane will not simply ask for help. He plans to force Eve into service, no matter what it costs her. His desperation pulls Eve into a web of violence that reaches back into her own past. The case becomes personal in ways she never expected. Eve must navigate Doane's dangerous world while using her skills to uncover the truth about his son.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, personal-stakes
352 pages · Kindle Edition · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: violence