2025 Barry Award for Best Novel (nominee)
2025 British Book Award Crime and Thriller Book of the Year (nominee)
2025 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (longlist)
2025 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (shortlist)
2025 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee)
2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD • From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that ‘hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel’ (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl).
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A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews
‘Kept me frantically turning the pages and somehow made me cry at the end . . . Brava!’—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women
‘Melds tense suspense with a powerful exploration of devotion, obsession, and love.’—People
1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.
When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.
Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.
Genre: Mystery
Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today
A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews
‘Kept me frantically turning the pages and somehow made me cry at the end . . . Brava!’—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women
‘Melds tense suspense with a powerful exploration of devotion, obsession, and love.’—People
1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.
When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.
Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.
Genre: Mystery
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