She Left No Word

She took the cash out a little at a time. She gave up her lease. She told a friend she was thinking about starting over.

Then she was gone - and everyone agreed she'd simply left.

When Shannon Brede disappears from a small town on Lake Superior, the case is closed almost before it opens. Her car is still in the lot behind her building. Her mail is stacking up inside. And every person who knew her says the same thing: she'd been talking about getting out for weeks.

The sheriff isn't cutting corners. He's reading the evidence in front of him, and the evidence is real.

Detective Sergeant Dana Sutter reads the same file and sees something nobody else does. She has spent fifteen years learning to tell the difference between a woman who left and a woman who was made to look like she left - and Shannon Brede did everything right. She planned it. She meant it. She was days away.

Which is exactly what frightens Dana.

Because a woman who is about to vanish on her own terms is a woman somebody might have a reason to stop first.

The snow is coming. The back roads are closing. And the longer Dana pushes at a case everyone else has already filed away, the more certain she becomes that someone in this town has been counting on the obvious answer.

An utterly gripping crime thriller with a twist you won't see coming. Perfect for readers who love atmospheric small-town mysteries and a detective who refuses to let go.