Finalist for the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel From the internationally bestselling author who Stephen King calls an absolute master, a fiendishly clever thriller about a dangerous young woman with the ability to know when someone is lying--and the criminal psychologist who must outwit her to survive.
What price will he pay for the truth? Emotionally explosive, swiftly paced, and haunting...
Robotham expertly raises the tension as the action hurtles toward the devastating climax ( Publishers Weekly , starred review)..
A man haunted by his own tragic history, Cyrus is caught between the two cases--one Girl who needs saving and another who needs justice.
Pretty and popular, Jodie is portrayed by everyone as the ultimate girl-next-door, but as Cyrus peels back the layers, a secret life emerges--one that Evie Cormac, the Girl with no past, knows something about.
Meanwhile, Cyrus is called in to investigate the shocking murder of a high school figure-skating champion, Jodie Sheehan, who died on a lonely footpath close to her home.
Evie knows when someone is lying, and no one around her is telling the truth.
But she is unlike anyone he\'s ever met--fascinating and dangerous in equal measure.
When she initiates a court case demanding the right to be released as an adult, forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven must determine if Evie is ready to go free.
Six years later, still unidentified, she is living in a secure children\'s home with a new name, Evie Cormac.
She doesn\'t appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA can\'t be matched to an identity.
Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen.
Half-starved and filthy, she won\'t tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from.
A Girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime.
Finalist for the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel From the internationally bestselling author who Stephen King calls an absolute master, a fiendishly clever thriller about a dangerous young woman with the ability to know when someone is lying--and the criminal psychologist who must outwit her to survive
