William Morrow
April 2016
On Sale: April 12, 2016
Featuring: Nicki Clements
416 pages ISBN: 0062388274 EAN: 9780062388278 Kindle: B00PFXLEMK Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murdersβin the ranks of Ruth Rendell, Deborah Crombie, Kimberly McCreight, and Tana Frenchβmakes her William Morrow debut with a dark and chilling psychological thriller in which a woman desperate to hide a devastating secret in her past is drawn into a murder investigation.
Traffic on Elmhirst Road has come to a halt. The police are stopping cars, searching for something. Nicki Clements waits patiently, until she glimpses a face she hoped sheβd never see again. Itβs himβand heβs the cop checking each car. Desperate to avoid him, she makes a panicky U-turn and escapes.
But Nickiβs peculiar behavior did not go unnoticed, and now the police have summoned her for questioning. A resident of Elmhirst Road has been murderedβa controversial newspaper columnist named Damon Blundy. The detectives begin peppering her with questions. Why was she seen fleeing the scene? What is her connection to the victim? Why was the knife that killed him used in such a peculiar way? Why were the words βHE IS NO LESS DEADβ painted on the wall of Blundyβs studyβand what do they signify?
One simple answer could clear her. But she canβt explain why she fled Elmhirst Road that day without revealing the secret that could ruin her.
Nicki isnβt guilty of murder. But sheβs far from innocent. . . .
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