by Michael Robotham

Psychologist Joe Laughlin of Michael Robotham's LOST returns to help a detective recover vital memories in this second work of psychological suspense. Three years ago, seven-year-old Michaela 'Mickey' Carlyle, daughter of a Russian crime lord, vanished. Although no body ever turned up, a culprit was found, convicted, and imprisoned. But this apparently closed case blows wide open after the case's lead investigator, Vincent Ruiz, is found in the freezing waters of the Thames, shot in the leg, and with a bloodstained photo of Mickey in his pocket. Unfortunately, Ruiz can no longer remember how he got there, nor what inspired him to begin looking for Mickey again. More unfortunately still, both Ruiz's superiors and Mickey's dangerous father believe that Ruiz is only shamming amnesia, and that Ruiz himself had something to do with Mickey's disappearance.