Lost Ones

A BUSTLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

TIME MAGAZINE SUMMER READ RECOMMEND

Finalist for the International Thriller Writers, Strand Critics, and Barry Award for Best First Novel



"A brave, unflinching heroine and brave, unflinching writing add up to an extraordinary debut--highly recommended."--Lee Child

A dark, compulsively readable psychological suspense debut, the first in a new series featuring the brilliant, fearless, chaotic, and deeply flawed Nora Watts—a character as heartbreakingly troubled, emotionally complex, and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole.

It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years—since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren’t looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.

A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets. Caring despite herself, she sets out to find Bonnie with her only companion, her mutt Whisper, knowing she risks reopening wounds that have never really healed—and plunging into the darkness with little to protect her but her instincts and a freakish ability to detect truth from lies.

The search uncovers a puzzling conspiracy that leads Nora on a harrowing journey of deception and violence, from the gloomy rain-soaked streets of Vancouver, to the icy white mountains of the Canadian interior, to the beautiful and dangerous island where she will face her most terrifying demon. All to save a girl she wishes had never been born.

UNA CEL MAI BUNA CARTE ALE LUMINULUI MAGAZIN TIME VARA CITITI RECOMANDA Finalist pentru thrillerul international, criticii Strand si premiul Barry pentru cel mai bun prim roman „O eroina curajoasa, neclintita si o scriere curajoasa, neclintita se adauga la un debut extraordinar - foarte recomandat. "- Lee Child Un debut intunecat, de citit compulsiv, in suspans psihologic, primul dintr-o noua serie cu Nora Watts genial, neinfricat, haotic si profund defect - un personaj la fel de tulburator de inima, complex emotional si irezistibil de convingator ca Lisbeth Salander de Stieg Larsson si Harry Hole al lui Jo Nesbø. Incepe cu un telefon pe care Nora Watts l-a temut de cincisprezece ani - din ziua in care si-a dat fiica nou-nascuta spre adoptie.