by C. J. Tudor
First published 2020
Gabe spots his five-year-old daughter Izzy's face in the back window of a beat-up car ahead of him on the motorway. She mouths "Daddy" before vanishing forever. Three years pass. Gabe drives the same roads obsessively, hunting for that car while everyone else assumes Izzy died. Meanwhile, Fran races down those same highways with her daughter Alice, fleeing people who want to harm them. Fran carries a deadly secret about what really happened to Izzy. When police discover the mysterious car submerged in a lake with a corpse inside, Gabe must face not only the night Izzy disappeared but buried events from his past. His investigation leads him to The Other People, a group that claims to help those who have lost loved ones. They understand loss, pain, and death intimately. They want to share that understanding with others.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: missing-person, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Lake
Period: Three Years
368 pages · Paperback · Ballantine Books
Content warnings: child-death