EAN: 9780062565976

Bilder-Quelle: discount24.de - Sport-Freizeit

A BUSTLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH TIME MAGAZINE SUMMER READ RECOMMEND Finalist for the International Thriller Writers Strand Critics and Barry Award for Best First Novel A brave unflinching heroine and brave unflinching writing add up to an extraordinary debut--highly recommended.--Lee Child A dark compulsively readable psychological suspense debut the first in a new series featuring the brilliant fearless chaotic and deeply flawed Nora Watts-a character as heartbreakingly troubled emotionally complex and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole. It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years-since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A biracial product of the foster system transient homeless scarred by a past filled with pain and violence Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets. Caring despite herself she sets out to find Bonnie with her only companion her mutt Whisper knowing she risks reopening wounds that have never really healed-and plunging into the darkness with little to protect her but her instincts and a freakish ability to detect truth from lies. The search uncovers a puzzling conspiracy that leads Nora on a harrowing journey of deception and violence from the gloomy rain-soaked streets of Vancouver to the icy white mountains of the Canadian interior to the beautiful and dangerous island where she will face her most terrifying demon. All to save a girl she wishes had never been born.

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