The first thing that bothered Detective Mara Velez was the coffee. Evelyn Harrow’s kitchen was neat, the back door was locked, and her purse was still hanging from the same chair where her daughter said she always left it. But beside the sink sat a mug with a skin of dried cream across the surface, and on the counter were two sugar packets torn open for a woman who had taken her coffee black for thirty years. Three hours later, police found Evelyn’s SUV abandoned beside an old logging road. What they discovered beyond it changed the missing-person case into something no one in Bellweather County had been prepared for.
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