AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2024WINNER OF GOODREADS MYSTERY & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

'I was totally gripped' DOUGLAS STUART

'Immersive and enthralling' PAULA HAWKINS

'At first hard to put down. By page 200, impossible' STEPHEN KINGWhen their thirteen-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer camp, all eyes fall on the Van Laar family.

They're cold, rich people. They own the camp. And it's happened to them before.

Fourteen years ago their little boy, Bear, vanished without a trace.

Two children lost to the same wilderness.

Is it a tragedy… or a crime?

'Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced … I can't remember the last time I felt so entangled in a novelist's coils' Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures**'A beguiling novel with a relentless grip. You won't be able to put it down'Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground**'At once an immersive family saga and utterly propulsive mystery. Beautifully written'Emilia Hart, author of Weyward**'A masterful literary thriller'Lucy Clarke, author of The Hike**