by Chris Pavone
First published 2022
Ariel Pryce opens her eyes in a Lisbon hotel room to find her husband John gone. No note, no explanation, no response to her calls. She turns to hotel security, then local police, then the American embassy, but each conversation reveals how little she actually knows about the man she married. What business brought John to Portugal? Why did he insist she accompany him? Who might want to hurt him? As hours pass, Ariel grows more desperate. The authorities ask questions she cannot answer about her much younger husband's work and connections. Time runs short, and the one person who could help her is the last person she wants to contact. Ariel must decide how far she will go to find John, even as she discovers that everything she believed about her marriage might be wrong.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: missing-spouse, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Lisbon, Portugal
Period: 21st-century
436 pages · Hardcover · MCD