Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore streetâand encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed.
Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from "kid prison" to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue to haunt the parents, the lawyers, the policeâall the adults in Alice and Ronnie's lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances ...
Since Laura Lippmanâs debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the âessentialâ crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her âspecial, even extraordinary,â and Gillian Flynn wrote, âShe is simply a brilliant novelist.â Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.