by Sandra Brown
First published 2007
Sandra Brown lives with a terrible mystery. Twenty-seven years ago, her twelve-year-old neighbor vanished without a trace. The police found nothing. The case went cold. Then Sandra's father makes a shocking admission. He was involved in the child's disappearance. Sandra begins her own investigation into what really happened. She uncovers disturbing truths about her father that the entire community knew but never acted upon. The police were aware of his pattern of molesting children. Neighbors whispered about his behavior. Yet no one stopped him. As Sandra digs deeper, she must reconcile the father she thought she knew with the predator he actually was. Her search for answers becomes a reckoning with family loyalty, community silence, and her own complicity in overlooking the signs.
Genres: abuse, mystery, crime, non-fiction, true-crime, family-drama
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-secrets, unreliable-narrator
Paperback · Pan
Content warnings: child-abuse, pedophilia