“An eerie, anxious, and finely written book…Readers will grip their chair” (SFGate.com) as they try to unravel this story of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling writer of Turn of Brain.

Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed within a senseless incident. Devastated, she manages to create one small stab at a fresh life: she goes from San Francisco to the seaside town of Half Moon Bay. Jane is normally inconsolable, and yet, as the months go by, she actually is able to about Half Moon Bay: A Book cobble collectively some version of a job, of friends, of the possibility of peace.

And then, kids begin to vanish. And quickly, Jane sees her own discomfort reflected in every the parents in the town. She miracles if she will have the ability to live through the aching reduction, the fear throughout her. And as the disappearances continue, she begins to observe that what her neighbours are wondering is normally if it is Jane herself who has unleashed the horror of reduction.

Alice LaPlante’s “well-crafted novel of mental suspense” is normally a chilling story about a mom haunted by her past, a “brooding suspense book…dark, starkly gorgeous…LaPlante uses a seductively dangerous landscaping to reflection her heroine’s internal life” (Kirkus Testimonials).