This is one of those books that leaves your heart aching and your mind wanting more.
Here is the premise of the book:
A year after 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared on her way home from the library in an unnamed rural North Carolina town, her twin brother, Johnny, continues to search the town, street by street, even visiting the homes of known sex offenders, in this chilling novel from Edgar-winner Hart (Down River). Det. Clyde Hunt, the lead cop on Alyssa's case, keeps a watchful eye on Johnny and his mother, who has deteriorated since Alyssa's abduction and her husband's departure soon afterward. When a second girl is snatched, Johnny is even more determined to find his sister, convinced that the perpetrator is the same person who took Alyssa. But what he unearths is more sinister than anyone imagined, sending shock waves through the community and putting Johnny's own life in danger. Despite a tendency to dip into melodrama, Hart spins an impressively layered tale of broken families and secrets that can kill
There were times that I felt like I needed to put the book down because the intensity of my reaction to the characters, their development and the plot were overwhelming in a way that made me think. Throughout the book, I'd convinced myself that I knew how the story was going to end, but I was wrong in every way. I became attached to the characters and at the end of the book, I longed to know where they went from there.
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