FROM A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR. IDEAL FOR FANS OF ROBERT GALBRAITH. Sometimes the past is worth leaving in the past... In a small tobacco shop in Birmingham, its owner and... a newly minted deputy district attorney are found dead. Both were shot in the back of the head, as if they had been executed. But they didn’t even know each other and at first glance were in no way related to each other. The case is so strange that it is transferred to the best detectives of the local police - Kerry Devlin and Luke Falco. It soon becomes clear that their former colleague Sadie Cross may be involved in this crime. But Sadie has recently lost her memory... And it seems that the fragments of her memories are another code that needs to be solved in order to find clues. At the same time, Devlin is informed that her daughter, studying at Brighton Academy, pushed another student down the stairs. The girl secretly tells her mother about frequent memory lapses and a suspicious new classmate. And again this mysterious amnesia... Events intertwine with each other, as if in a carefully constructed puzzle.

“An intriguing combination of police procedural and thriller.” — Kirkus Reviews “Lovers of suspenseful mystery plot twists, hang in there! You will like this novel." — Publishers Weekly "Debra Webb's name says it all." —Karen Rose, New York Times bestselling author “A word of warning: Be prepared to forget about sleeping, eating, and any household chores. It will become impossible to stop reading.” — Washington Post “Debra Webb once again wows readers with a twisting and gripping narrative filled with complex characters. I look forward to meeting Detectives Devlin and Falco again!” — Lauret Ann White