“The book begins with a bang when Abigail Campano comes home to her upscale Atlanta house to find her daughter Emma on the floor in the upstairs hall beaten and covered with blood. A man is standing over her holding a knife. Abigail trips down the stairs, the man comes after her, and in the scuffle following, she comes out the winner. She strangles the man with her bare hands.
Unfortunately for Abigail and the cops first on the scene, almost everything she assumed in her first glimpse of this horror was wrong. The dead girl on the floor is not Emma, the man with the knife is not the killer, and the Atlanta cops, reading it the same, have given Abigail's daughter's kidnapper precious time to get away. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes over the case with Will Trent in charge of finding Emma Campano as soon as possible, hopefully still alive.
Obviously the book opens with high suspense, and it maintains that suspense masterfully throughout, and not only in regards to the fate of Emma Campano. Will Trent, the GBI investigator, has secrets of his own and an ugly conflict with Atlanta cop, Faith Mitchell whose mother he investigated (and implicated) in a sting operation exposing dirty dealings of Atlanta cops. When Will finds himself paired with Faith, he feels vulnerable. She is an able cop, and working closely together she may discover his secret: he's functionally illiterate. She already hates him. Will she expose his weakness and lose him his position?
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