by Lisa Unger
First published 2018
Poppy's world collapsed when her husband Jack was killed during his morning run in Riverside Park. The murder remains unsolved after a year. In the days following Jack's death, Poppy vanished completely, only to reappear wearing an unfamiliar red dress with no memory of where she had been. Now Poppy experiences frequent nightmares and loses chunks of time she cannot account for. Reality blurs with imagination as she struggles to distinguish between what actually happens and what exists only in her mind. When Poppy becomes convinced that someone is watching her, she decides to investigate Jack's death herself. The deeper she digs into the mystery, the more dangerous her search becomes. Poppy must confront the possibility that the truth about those missing days and Jack's murder might be more than she can bear to discover.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amnesia, psychological-suspense, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Riverside Park
Period: contemporary
361 pages · Paperback · Park Row
Content warnings: anxiety, depression, mental-illness