IT WAS THE PERFECT DAY OUT . . . UNTIL THEY NEVER CAME BACK. THE EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT DAVID RAKER THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE MISSING PERSON MYSTERY, TIM WEAVERRICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Fiendishly serpentine and utterly compulsive' Louise CandlishA beautiful summer day. A remote Dartmoor lake.

The Fowler family takes a boat out. Mother Sarah stays on shore. She looks away for one minute.

When she turns back the boat is empty . . .

Her family has vanished. The police draw a blank. Yet missing persons investigatorDavid Raker knows something isn’t right.

He promises answers. But his questions might put him in the path of a killer . .