THE MISSING

DARBY MCCORMACK WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN SHE FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE KILLER: SOMEONE MURDERED A WOMAN IN THE WOODS WHERE DARBY AND HER TWO BEST FRIENDS WERE PARTYING. HIS RACE TO SILENCE THE WITNESSES WAS SURE-FOOTED AND VIOLENT—BUT SOMEHOW DARBY SURVIVED. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER DARBY IS A CRIME-SCENE INVESTIGATOR FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AND A CHILLING CASE—A WOMAN’S LATE-NIGHT ABDUCTION—HAS HER UNCOVERING STRANGE LEADS TO MISSING WOMEN PAST AND PRESENT. AS FORENSIC CLUES LEAD HER CLOSER TO A PSYCHOPATH CALLED THE TRAVELER DARBY MUST FINALLY RESOLVE THE NIGHTMARE OF HER PAST AND COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH A KILLER WHO IS DETERMINED TO KEEP THE MISSING—AND THE HORRORS THEY ENDURED AT HIS HANDS—FROM EVER COMING TO LIGHT.