The past comes back with a bite in the gripping new thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Fool Me Once.

A year after the devastating events that took place in Fool Me Once, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce’s college days comes back to haunt him. Present day is hard enough for Kierce, but his past isn’t through with him yet…

MALAGA, 2000
Sami Kierce, a young man backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning. He is covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of a woman. Anna. Dead. He begins to scream.

NEW YORK CITY, 2025
Kierce, now a disgraced detective, is teaching night classes when he recognizes a familiar face in the crowd. Anna. It’s unmistakably her. But as soon as he makes eye contact with her, she runs. For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the mystery that still haunts his every waking moment.

His investigation will bring him face-to-face with his past.

Soon he discovers that some secrets should stay buried . . .
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HARLAN COBEN never ever lets you down – LEE CHILD
HARLAN COBEN- simply one of the all-time greats – GILLIAN FLYNN
HARLAN COBEN never disappoints – STEPHEN KING
HARLAN COBEN is the modern master of the hook and twist – DAN BROWN
HARLAN COBEN is unbelievably brilliant – RICHARD OSMAN
HARLAN COBEN is a GREAT writer – JOHN GRISHAM

Harlan Coben is a no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and one of the world’s leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-six languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries, with eighty million books in print worldwide. His Myron Bolitar series has earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and several of his books have been developed into Netflix original series, including the no. 1 global hit Fool Me Once, The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good, The Woods, Stay Close, and Hold Tight, as well as the Amazon Prime Video series adaptation of Shelter. He lives in New Jersey.