Two parents conduct an increasingly desperate search for their missing daughter in "a clever, chilling thriller that is also unexpectedly moving" (Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of Everyone Here Is Lying)

"Imran Mahmood is the only author writing about a missing person who deals with grief this well. I loved it."--Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

Someone is guilty.

For the last seventeen years, Harry and Zara King's lives have revolved around their only daughter, Sophie. One day, Sophie leaves the house and doesn't come home. Six weeks later, the police are no closer to finding her than when they started. Harry and Zara have questioned everyone who has ever had any connection to Sophie, to no avail. Except there's one house on their block--number 210, across the street--whose occupant refuses to break his silence.

Someone knows what happened.

As the question mark over number 210 devolves into obsession, Harry and Zara are forced to examine their own lives. They realize they have grown apart, suffering in separate spheres of grief. And as they try to find their way back to each other, they must face the truth about their daughter: who she was, how she changed, and why she disappeared.

Someone will pay.

Told in the alternating perspectives of Harry and Zara, and in a dual timeline between the weeks after Sophie's disappearance and a year later in the middle of a murder trial, Imran Mahmood's taut yet profoundly moving novel explores how differently grief can be experienced even when shared by parents--and how hope triumphs when it springs from the kind of love that knows no bounds.

Author: Imran Mahmood
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780593723586


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2023 pg. 11
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2024
Booklist 02/15/2024 pg. 26

About the Author
Imran Mahmood is a practicing criminal barrister in England and Wales with over thirty years' experience fighting cases. His debut novel, You Don't Know Me, was chosen by Simon Mayo as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice for 2017, longlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold Dagger Award, and shortlisted for the Glass Bell Award. Its hugely successful television adaptation reached number three in the world on Netflix charts and received a BAFTA nomination for best actor. Mahmood was born and raised in Liverpool and now lives in London with his wife and two daughters.