Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job-working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney-and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert. But when a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River, barely alive, things in the office take a personal turn.

The police believe the woman''s assailant is local photographer Gavin Spenser, but the case quickly flounders as the evidence wears thinIt seems Gavin saw this investigation coming-and no one can imagine how carefully he has prepared.

The more determined Lila is to put Gavin behind bars, the more elusive justice becomes. Battling a vindictive new boss and haunted by the ghosts of her own unspeakable attack, which she''s kept a dark secret for eight long years, Lila knows the clock is ticking downIn a race against an evil mastermind, it will take everything Lila''s got to outsmart a killer-and to escape the dark hold of her own past.

"In The Stolen Hours, there''s not a moment misplaced or a second lost. With the precision of a watchmaker, Eskens assembles the fine parts of a mystery and sets them to the tempo of a thriller, leaving the reader breathless." -Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries



Format Inbunden Omfång 320 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown & Company Utgivningsdatum 2021-09-30 ISBN 9780316703499