"Murderers are rarely who you imagine them to be ..." One moment, Selena Cole is at the playground with her children ... the next, she has vanished without a trace. With engrossing characters, devilish twists, and evocative prose, The Missing Hours is that rare page-turner--as satisfying and complex as it is unpredictable.

One moment, Selena Cole is at the playground with her children; the next, she has vanished without a trace. The body of Dominic Newell, a well-respected lawyer, is found on a remote mountain road, blood oozing from the stab wound in his neck. In the sleepy borderland between England and Wales, sheep outnumber people and serious crimes are rare. Detective Constable Leah Mackay and her brother, Detective Sergeant Finn Hale, begin their respective investigations, but soon find them linked. Selena is found alive and unhurt twenty hours later, wearing a blood-spattered sweater, claiming no memory of the preceding hours. Is she a victim, a liar ... or a murder suspect? -- adapted from jacket.