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Bank Arbaugh, a cop whose daughter has been missing for seven years, and his partner, Mark Steiner, must find a missing teenage girl, and as the two cases intersect, the dramatic and inescapable conclusion is revealed, in an intricately woven tapestry of family, love, and friendship told in two parallel stories. Simultaneous.

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The protagonists of Craig Holden's poetic, intricate, and challenging novels are complex individuals whose many dimensions are revealed so painstakingly that when their deepest secrets are finally uncovered, the reader is likely to whisper a satisfying "aha!" and experience a closure that is secondary to the solution of the mysteries at the heart of the plot. Like his previous novels, this one is a meditation on friendship, love and the meaning of family, as two men, both of them police detectives, undertake a search for a missing teenager. Mack and Bank have been down this route before--seven years ago, when Bank's own daughter disappeared in a case still marked "unsolved" in the police files of the unnamed Midwest city where the novel is set. The parallels between her disappearance and Tamara Shipley's abduction aren't immediately obvious, but first Mack and then Bank begin to suspect a connection. As the search for Tamara bolsters the link between a murdered Catholic priest who knew her family and a shadowy organisation called the Sisters of Compassion, which operates a kind of underground railroad for young abuse victims, evidence points to a hidden motive for what might not have been a kidnapping after all. And when Mack's own difficult teenage daughter goes missing, his search for Naomi uncovers even more disturbing connections between Tamara Shipley's disappearance and the decade-old abduction of his partner's child. The denouement doesn't wrap up all the loose ends--that's not Holden's style. In fact, it raises more questions than it answers. But those questions, and the characters who pose them, will linger in the reader's mind long after the details of the plot have faded from memory. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com
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"A compelling and heartbreaking story that is as much about family ties and loyalty as it is about catching a criminal."
--Chicago Tribune

"Craig Holden writes like a dream."
--The Washington Post

"Absorbing...[a] tense, thoughtful thriller...makes you feel just the right amount of fear."
--The New York Times

"A spine-tingling read...leaves us breathless."
--Detroit Free Press

"Part wrenching family drama...part tough procedural...delivers a punch in both its harrowing story and its carefully rendered prose."
--The Seattle Times

"Thought-provoking and sophisticated...builds to an exciting and shocking ending that is almost guaranteed to take you by surprise."
--The Denver Post

"A talented writer...a multilayered morality tale about the breakdown of trust between husband and wife, parent and child, friend and friend."
--The New York Times Book Review

"One grand surprise after another...Intelligent, splendid...[with] more twists and turns than a mountain trail."
--Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

"Haunting."
--The Orlando Sentinel

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