The Woods

Twenty years ago, Paul Copeland lost his sister when four teenagers disappeared from the woods near summer camp. Paul was in the forest at the time, but had broken away from the group with his girlfriend, Lucy. Only one body was found, though there blood from all four children at the site. Camille, Paul's sister was never seen again. Now Copeland is a top prosecutor involved in a high profile case to nail down two teenage frat-boy rapists. A widower and lone parent, he has long since lost touch with Lucy - and any hope of seeing his sister again. But his life is thrown into turmoil when a dead body turns up along with newspaper clippings about Paul. When taken to the morgue, Paul realizes that before him on the slab is the grown-up corpse of one of the missing boys from two decades ago. While trying to grapple with what this could mean, someone else is watching Paul - and making increasingly audacious attempts to scare him off, threatening to expose old cold war crimes of his father. Is his sister alive? And who is now setting out to destroy Paul's reputation and why? A searing mystery of blood ties and the dark chaos that can be unleashed in an ordinary life, Harlan Coben once again delivers his unique mix of powerful characters, lightning pace and whiplash-inducing twists that has endeared him to readers worldwide.