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Lorna Temple comes back to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the family property after her parents’ death, but the memory of two children who vanished twenty‑one years earlier—first nine‑year‑old Melinda Eagan on her birthday, then her foul‑mouthed brother Jason—remains with her. The case had gone cold when Jason’s own disappearance was closed as justice for Melinda’s murder, and the local police have never reopened the investigation. Determined to learn the full truth, Lorna hires private eye T. J. Dawson to dig into the old crimes and the secrets buried on the family land. Together they uncover heavy, disturbing evidence, and they realize that someone still lingers, ready to expose the killer and leave no one unaccountable.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Mariah Stewart
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