Taken. Taunted. And the clock is running out…
A boy vanishes from a park at dusk, and the phone starts to ring. But the voice on the other end doesn't want money. Not yet. Is it all just a sick tease?
Christmas in Austin turns cold and cruel fast. The family at the center of it is a house of mirrors — every person grieving, every person lying, and not one story that survives a second telling.
Alex has her sister Ivy beside her, an expert at finding lost children. But Ivy is unraveling by the hour. Whatever she buried twelve years ago is clawing its way out — and it will cut deeper than anything the kidnappers can do.
Across town, Ozzie is closing in on a thief. His new partner knows the black market cold, and she leads him straight to a legend — the man behind one of the most notorious heists in American history. But it takes a thief to know a thief. Ozzie learns that the hard way. And when he finally gets his suspect in the crosshairs, the man hands him the last thing he expected: a way to save the boy.
Meanwhile the hours bleed away. Every answer opens a worse door. But when the real demand finally lands, it lands with an impossible deadline and the cold certainty that paying it changes nothing.
Alex will get to the truth in time.
That's what terrifies her.
DEAD RINGER is a chilling, twisty, holiday thriller about the lies families bury to survive — and the one that cost a boy everything.
Genre: Mystery
A boy vanishes from a park at dusk, and the phone starts to ring. But the voice on the other end doesn't want money. Not yet. Is it all just a sick tease?
Christmas in Austin turns cold and cruel fast. The family at the center of it is a house of mirrors — every person grieving, every person lying, and not one story that survives a second telling.
Alex has her sister Ivy beside her, an expert at finding lost children. But Ivy is unraveling by the hour. Whatever she buried twelve years ago is clawing its way out — and it will cut deeper than anything the kidnappers can do.
Across town, Ozzie is closing in on a thief. His new partner knows the black market cold, and she leads him straight to a legend — the man behind one of the most notorious heists in American history. But it takes a thief to know a thief. Ozzie learns that the hard way. And when he finally gets his suspect in the crosshairs, the man hands him the last thing he expected: a way to save the boy.
Meanwhile the hours bleed away. Every answer opens a worse door. But when the real demand finally lands, it lands with an impossible deadline and the cold certainty that paying it changes nothing.
Alex will get to the truth in time.
That's what terrifies her.
DEAD RINGER is a chilling, twisty, holiday thriller about the lies families bury to survive — and the one that cost a boy everything.
Genre: Mystery