EAN: 9780062565976

THE LOST ONES - SHEENA KAMAL KARTONIERT (TB)

A BUSTLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH TIME MAGAZINE SUMMER READ RECOMMEND Finalist for the
International Thriller Writers  Strand Critics  and Barry Award for Best First Novel A brave 
unflinching heroine and brave  unflinching writing add up to an extraordinary debut--highly
recommended.--Lee Child A dark  compulsively readable psychological suspense debut  the first
in a new series featuring the brilliant  fearless  chaotic  and deeply flawed Nora Watts-a
character as heartbreakingly troubled  emotionally complex  and irresistibly compelling as
Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole. It begins with a phone call that
Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years-since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for
adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking 
leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A
biracial product of the foster system  transient  homeless  scarred by a past filled with pain
and violence  Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets. Caring
despite herself  she sets out to find Bonnie with her only companion  her mutt Whisper  knowing
she risks reopening wounds that have never really healed-and plunging into the darkness with
little to protect her but her instincts and a freakish ability to detect truth from lies. The
search uncovers a puzzling conspiracy that leads Nora on a harrowing journey of deception and
violence  from the gloomy rain-soaked streets of Vancouver  to the icy white mountains of the
Canadian interior  to the beautiful and dangerous island where she will face her most
terrifying demon. All to save a girl she wishes had never been born.

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