In the gripping new novel from America’s Queen of Suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked — despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them.
Following the acrimonious breakup of her marriage and the searing experience of being pursued by an obsessed stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to leave Albany and work in a major law firm in Manhattan.
Feeling a need for roots, she buys her ancestral home, a restored Victorian house in the historic New Jersey seaside resort town of Spring Lake. Her family had sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily’s forebears, Madeline Shapley, then still a young girl, disappeared.
Now, more than a century later, as the house is being renovated and the backyard excavated for a pool, the skeleton of a young woman is found. She is identified as Martha Lawrence, who had disappeared from Spring Lake over four year ago. Within her skeletal hand is the finger bone of another woman with a ring still on it — a Shapley family heirloom.
In seeking to find the link between her family’s past and the recent murder, Emily becomes a threat to a devious and seductive killer, who has chosen her as the next victim.
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 0/5
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Summary
Overall This is one of my favorites. I enjoyed the two story lines. The ending was very well done. MHC also does a great job of getting in the killers mind without
revealing who it is. I was able to connect with the main characters. It included a good strong female character. As in most of her books there are lots of characters to choose from and keep up with. I recommend the book.
Violence There is violence both past and present but nothing disturbing.
Sexual There is a budding romance for Emily. No physical scenes.