There were the Fraternity Four, as a group of students came to be called, who disappeared in 1997 Alice Kelly in 2012 Farrah Jordan in 2019 and Landon West in 2022. Labeled by the national press as “the most dangerous town in North Carolina,” Cutter’s Pass is a pretty place in which hikers have over the years had a tendency to vanish. When a man arrives at a North Carolina mountain hotel looking for clues to his journalist brother’s recent disappearance, the trail that he and the inn’s young manager start to follow leads them back to a sequence of unsolved cases, decades apart, that involve other missing hikers and that may be rooted in the town’s deepest secrets. More like a con than a truly satisfying psychological mystery. The main problem: As it becomes clear whodunit, there’s no true groundwork laid for us to believe that this person would behave at all the way they do. The chapters complement one another like a patchwork quilt, slowly revealing the rotten heart of a murderer amid a number of misdirections.

Someone is not who they seem someone has been keeping secrets for 11 long years. So this novel is both a mystery about what led to Meredith’s death and Delilah’s imprisonment and the story of what Delilah's return might mean to her family and all their well-meaning neighbors. One client in particular worries her Meredith fears her husband might be abusing her, and she's also unhappy with the way the woman’s obstetrician treats her. Meredith begins receiving texts that threaten to expose her and tear her life apart she struggles to keep them, and her anxiety, from her family as she goes through the motions of teaching yoga and working as a doula. Kubica alternates between chapters in the present narrated by Delilah’s younger brother, Leo, now 15 and resentful of the hold Delilah’s disappearance and Meredith’s death have had on his father, and chapters from 11 years earlier, narrated by Meredith and her neighbor Kate. Don’t even try.' Eleven years later, a girl escapes from a basement where she’s been held captive and severely abused she reports that she is Delilah. A few weeks later, the body of Meredith, another missing woman, is found with a self-inflicted knife wound the only clue about the fate of her still-missing 6-year-old daughter, Delilah, is a note that reads, ' You’ll never find her. One night, a young mother goes for a run. What should be a rare horror-a woman gone missing-becomes a pattern in Kubica's latest thriller.

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