**CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah
Tucker, whose search for a missing child unravels a murderous
conspiracy.
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When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in
the aftermath, Sarah Tucker--a young married woman, bored and unhappy
with domestic life--becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to
dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome
business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning
everything she thought she knew as her investigation reveals that people
long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast
joining the dead. What begins in a peaceful neighborhood reaches its
climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah
in league with a man being hunted down by murderous official forces.