The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window returns with a mesmerizing thriller - part Knives Out part Agatha Christie . . . yet utterly unlike anything youve ever read. Ill be dead in three months. Come tell my story. So writes Sebastian Trapp reclusive mystery novelist to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . living alongside his beautiful second wife Diana; his wayward nephew Freddy; and his protective daughter Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life detective fever. You and I might even solve an old mystery or two. Twenty years earlier--on New Years Eve 1999--Sebastians first wife and teenaged son vanished from different locations never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion two decades later to allow a stranger to dig into his past? Life is hard. After all it kills you. As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastians life she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . . . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the familys koi pond both women are shocked to find that the past isnt gone--its just waiting.
