Internationally bestselling author R.J. Ellory returns with his latest thriller of murder, deceit, and intrigue--"an energetic and winning exercise in pulp fiction with a Southern Gothic flavor" (METRO).On a perfect summer evening in 1954, sixteen-year-old Nancy Denton walked into the woods of her hometown of Whytesburg, Mississippi. She was never seen again. Two decades later, Sheriff John Gaines witnesses a harrowing discovery: A young woman has...