There's a contemporary plotline too, the hunt for a missing woman that dovetails neatly into Kat's obsessive search for the clue that will release her from her father's death. The story sweeps in time and place and keeps moving. All that is just in the first few pages of this terrific book. Then one day, she goes on a dating website and, after 20 years, there's the man who stole her heart and ran away with it.
The murderer confessed and went to prison for life, but the crime boss who commissioned the killing is still free and easy. Everything collapsed when her father died, murdered on the job in a contract killing. Once, she almost escaped, to Columbia Law School and marriage to a highly eligible man. Kat Donovan is a New York cop, daughter of a cop, raised in the stiff Irish Catholic world of cops. And you have to work your way through all of them to relish the stinger on the final page. Yes, there is a twist – are several of them, in fact. From the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger comes the 1 New York Times bestseller about the ties we have to our pastand the lies that bind us togetheras the ultimate Internet scam unfolds.Surfing an online dating site, NYPD detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. As the body count mounts and Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved-her former fiance, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained.Warning: under no circumstances do you skip to the ending of this superbly crafted novel. Kat Donovan, an NYPD detective, searches for the ex-fiancé who left her years before as well as her fathers murderer.
But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiance Jeff, the man who shattered her heart-and who she hasn't seen in 18 years. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben, a heart-pounding thriller about the ties we have to our past.
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