INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Detective Elise King investigates a man’s disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other in this suspenseful new novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Widow.
Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing—the weekenders renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes.
Elise can only guess what really happens behind closed doors. But Dee Eastwood, her house cleaner, often knows. She’s an invisible presence in many of the houses in town, but she sees and hears everything.
The conflicts boil over when a newcomer wants to put the town on the map with a giant music festival, and two teenagers overdose on drugs. When a man disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work and starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it's full of secrets and hidden connections that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.
Cracking Good Read
"I have read all of Fiona Barton's book except this one. It is just as good as her others. Elise King is a detective on leave recovering from breast cancer. One of the townspeople goes missing and she know him. She does her own investigation into where Charlie might have gone but she is called back to work to lead the investigation proper. She now has all the resources of the police department as well as local gossip and opinions of the man's character. The book goes back and forth in time but at least it tells us when it does so not to leave us confused. The past has a bearing on the characters involved and leads us to suspect several people who might be involved. There are secrets aplenty and they weave their way into the conclusion."
