Two girls vanished.
As Van and Harry connect the crimes of the past and the present, Van struggles with memories of her own nightmarish childhood--and the fear that uncovering the truth of the Taken Ones will lead her down a path from which she, too, may never return..
They have something else in common: each has ties to the original case in ways they\'re reluctant to share.
They\'re both desperate to catch a killer before he kills again.
Harry trusts in facts.
Van follows her gut.
Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide--a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls.
The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation.
Only one comes out, dead silent, her memory gone.
Summer 1980: Despite the local superstition that the Bendy Man haunts the woods, three girls go into a Minnesota forest.
Between two crimes lie decades of secrets yet to be unearthed in a pulse-pounding novel by the Edgar Award-nominated author of Unspeakable Things .
A woman buried alive.
Two girls vanished
