by Jess Walter
First published 2020
Frank Keller's world collapses when his wife Patty vanishes without explanation. The local beauty simply disappears, leaving Frank and the entire community searching for answers. Frank turns to his closest friend Leo, and together they begin a frantic hunt for the missing woman. Their investigation pulls them deeper into their small town's hidden corruption and long-buried secrets. The search strains Frank and Leo's lifelong bond as disturbing truths emerge about people they thought they knew. Each revelation raises new questions and higher stakes for everyone involved. The community must face the darkness that has festered beneath its familiar surface. Frank's quest to find his wife becomes a reckoning with the complicated nature of love and friendship, testing how far loyalty can stretch when everything you believed proves false.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Town
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
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