The breakout author of The Forgotten Girl and Cemetery Girl one of the brightest and best crime fiction writers of our time Suspense Magazine delivers a new novel about a man who is haunted by a face from his pastWhen Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery store his heart stops She is the spitting image of his college girlfriend Marissa Minor who died in a campus house fire twenty years earlier But when Nick tries to speak to her she acts skittish and rushes offThe next morning the police arrive at Nicks house and show him a photo of the woman from the store Shes been found dead murdered in a local motel with Nicks name and address on a piece of paper in her pocketConvinced theres a connection between the two women Nick enlists the help of his college friend Laurel Davidson to investigate the events leading up to the night of Marissas death But the young womans murder is only the beginningand the truths Nick uncovers may make him wish he never doubted the lies.
