For fans of Knives Out comes a spellbinding thriller from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window
āIāll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.ā
So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life ādetective fever.ā
āYou and I might even solve an old mystery or two.ā
Twenty years earlierāon New Yearās Eve 1999āSebastianās first wife and teenaged son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past?
āLife is hard. After all, it kills you.ā
As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastianās life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . . . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the familyās koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isnāt goneāitās just waiting.
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