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Beschreibung
Twenty-two years ago, nineteen-year-old Vivian Calloway walked out of the family's Lowcountry farmhouse and was never seen again. The town called it a runaway girl's restlessness. Her family called it the wound that never closed. Elias and Nia Calloway were twelve the night their sister vanished and it made them who they are. Elias became a homicide detective who trusts evidence over instinct. Nia became an investigative journalist who trusts nothing the town tells her twice. They haven't lived in the same state, or spoken more than twice a year, since they were old enough to leave Belle Terre behind. Then a construction crew breaks ground on the old Calloway acreage and unearths bones that shouldn't be there. Suddenly the twins are back home, back in each other's orbit, and back inside a case the whole town would rather leave buried. Nia's pursuit of the truth pulls her into a dangerous, complicated pull toward the detective now reopening the file - a woman whose loyalty to the badge may not survive what the evidence points to. Elias, meanwhile, starts recovering a memory from that night he spent two decades convincing himself he'd imagined: a car in the drive that didn't belong to anyone in their family. A car that belonged to a man the whole town still calls Your Honor. As the twins get closer to the truth, they uncover a conspiracy of silence that reaches into their own father's house - a cover-up built to protect a man with enough power to bury more than secrets. The closer Elias and Nia get to what really happened to Vivian, the clearer it becomes: someone in Belle Terre has been getting away with murder for twenty-two years, and they are prepared to make sure it stays that way. Some cold cases don't stay cold because no one is looking. They stay cold because everyone already knows - and no one has been brave enough, until now, to say it out loud.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Adaora Fenwick Bryce
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 252