IT WAS THE PERFECT DAY OUT . . .

UNTIL THEY NEVER CAME BACK.

THE EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT DAVID RAKER THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE MISSING PERSON MYSTERY, TIM WEAVER

RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK

'Fiendishly serpentine and utterly compulsive' Louise Candlish

A beautiful summer day. A remote Dartmoor lake.
The Fowler family takes a boat out.
Mother Sarah stays on shore.

She looks away for one minute.
When she turns back the boat is empty . . .
Her family has vanished.

The police draw a blank.
Yet missing persons investigator
David Raker knows something isn’t right.
He promises answers.
But his questions might put him in the path of a killer . . .

‘A twisty adventure, a masterclass of plotting’
Literary Review
‘Raker and a race against time - is there a better basis for a book? Impossible to put down’ HOLLY WATT
‘Oh-so tantalising twisty’ Heat