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Jason Jones returns from his late shift at the newspaper to find his four-year-old daughter, Ree, sleeping soundly and his wife nowhere to be seen. Sandy has not taken her bag, money or her mobile phone and she has not taken her car. More importantly she has not taken Ree. And Sandy would never leave Ree.
Detective D D Jackson Warren does not like Jason Jones one little bit. She cannot comprehend his closed down, composed manner. This is not the normal reaction of a man whose wife seems to have been abducted from inside her own home. A home with steel reinforced doors and impenetrable window locks. In fact, the more Detective Jackson Warren talks to Jason, the more he is starting to fit the profile as a suspect in his own wife's disappearance.
Working against the clock and with a media hurricane whipping around her heels, Detective Jackson Warren knows that in the case of a missing person, she has a matter of hours to discover whether Jason Jones is the perfect husband or the perfect murderer. The closer Jackson Warren gets, the more Jones attempts to isolate himself and his daughter from the centre of the storm. But the harder he pushes away, the more guilty he makes himself look. A man with no apparent past; a family from nowhere - it is almost as if the Jones family landed in South Boston like Dorothy's house in Oz - and JacksonWarren's intuition is on red alert.
What Detective Jackson Warren has to resolve in her own mind, first before she can build her case, is whether Jason is trying to hide his guilt or if he is simply trying to hide.
Lisa Gardner has been writing bestselling crime thriller fiction (as Lisa Gardner) for about a decade now. Prior to that, Gardner wrote Romance novels under the pen name of Alicia Scott and if you have ever read any of Gardner's work, I can assure you it's quite a departure from hearts and flowers!