NATIONAL BESTSELLER
As compelling as Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark or
James Ellroy's My Dark Places, this is the story of a brother's
lifelong determination to find the truth about his sister's death, a
police force that was ignoring the cases of missing and murdered women,
and, to the surprise of everyone involved, a previously undiscovered
serial killer.
In the fall of 1978 teenager Theresa Allore went missing near
Sherbrooke, Quebec. She wasn't seen again until the spring thaw revealed
her body in a creek only a few kilometers away. Shrugging off her death
as a result of 1970s drug culture, police didn't investigate.
Patricia Pearson started dating Theresa's brother John during the
aftermath of Theresa's death. Though the two teens would go their
separate ways, the family's grief, obsession with justice and desire for
the truth never left Patricia. Little did she know, the shockwaves of
Theresa's death would return to her life repeatedly over the next forty
years.
In 2001, John had just moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his
wife and young children, when the cops came to the door. They had
determined that a young girl had been murdered and buried in the
basement. John wondered: If these cops could look for this young girl,
why had nobody even tried to find out what happened to Theresa? Unable
to rest without closure, he reached out to Patricia, by now an
accomplished crime journalist and author, and together they found
answers far bigger and more alarming than they could have imagined--and
a legacy of violence that refused to end.
