Finalist for the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel From the
internationally bestselling author who Stephen King calls "an absolute
master," a fiendishly clever thriller about a dangerous young woman with
the ability to know when someone is lying--and the criminal psychologist
who must outwit her to survive.A girl is discovered hiding in a secret
room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she
won't tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe
she is twelve, maybe fifteen. She doesn't appear in any missing persons
file, and her DNA can't be matched to an identity. Six years later,
still unidentified, she is living in a secure children's home with a new
name, Evie Cormac. When she initiates a court case demanding the right
to be released as an adult, forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven must
determine if Evie is ready to go free. But she is unlike anyone he's
ever met--fascinating and dangerous in equal measure. Evie knows when
someone is lying, and no one around her is telling the truth. Meanwhile,
Cyrus is called in to investigate the shocking murder of a high school
figure-skating champion, Jodie Sheehan, who died on a lonely footpath
close to her home. Pretty and popular, Jodie is portrayed by everyone as
the ultimate girl-next-door, but as Cyrus peels back the layers, a
secret life emerges--one that Evie Cormac, the girl with no past, knows
something about. A man haunted by his own tragic history, Cyrus is
caught between the two cases--one girl who needs saving and another who
needs justice. What price will he pay for the truth? Emotionally
explosive, swiftly paced, and "haunting...Robotham expertly raises the
tension as the action hurtles toward the devastating climax" (Publishers
Weekly, starred review).
