“Riveting and deeply felt and true.” - Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“[T]he most suspenseful and moving novel I’ve read in many years. . . . This is a book that haunts and tantalizes and possesses us long after the last page is turned.” - Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried
“[This] cunningly crafted jigsaw puzzle is colored by vibrant prose and capped by a you’ll-never-guess conclusion.” - Entertainment Weekly
“A brilliantly engrossing mystery . . . both subtle and disturbing in just the right proportions.” - Daily News (New York)
“This is a book that haunts and tantalizes and possesses us long after the last page is turned.” - Tim O’Brien author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Things They Carried and National Book Award winner for Going After Cacciato
“A chilly, disquieting mystery in which the answer to the title is always ‘no.’” - Ron Hansen, author of Mariette in Ecstasy and the National Book Award finalist Atticus
“Shepard has found a voice here that is as strong and confident and full of wise observation.” - O magazine
“Shepard’s masterful third book…leads to a conclusion that’s satisfying, haunting and well deserved.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)