It was an enormous privilege to work with two incredible editors on this book, Michael Pietsch and Joshua Kendall. Thanks to you both for marvelous work.
A nowhere-near-exhaustive list of the people who actually made the book happen once I did the easy part: Reagan Arthur, Heather Fain, Marlena Bittner, Sabrina Callahan, Miriam Parker, Wes Miller, Nicole Dewey, Tracy Williams, Nancy Wiese, Tracy Roe, Pamela Marshall, and all the others at Little, Brown and Company are the best in the business, and it is a pleasure to work with them.
Richard Pine, David Hale Smith, and the rest of the InkWell Management team deserve their standard accolades, as does Angela Cheng Caplan.
Finally, the lion’s share of the gratitude belongs to my wife, Christine. She tolerated various off-the-grid research trips, participated in others (in retrospect, maybe we shouldn’t have done both the waist-deep wading and the mountaintop lightning on her first day out), and read more pages than any editor.
This book was inspired and informed by countless nonfiction works, and a list of the best of them is available on my website, michaelkoryta.com.
About the Author
Michael Koryta is the New York Times–bestselling author of nine previous novels. His books have won or been nominated for many awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, the Barry Award, the Quill Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Great Lakes Book Award, and the Golden Dagger. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. A former private investigator and newspaper reporter, Koryta lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida.
michaelkoryta.com
Books by Michael Koryta
Those Who Wish Me Dead
The Prophet
The Ridge
The Cypress House
So Cold the River
The Silent Hour
Envy the Night
A Welcome Grave
Sorrow’s Anthem
Tonight I Said Goodbye
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Part One: Hidden Witness1: Chapter 1
2: Chapter 2
3: Chapter 3
4: Chapter 4
5: Chapter 5
6: Chapter 6
7: Chapter 7
8: Chapter 8
9: Chapter 9
10: Chapter 10
11: Chapter 11
12: Chapter 12
13: Chapter 13
Part Two: Point Last Seen14: Chapter 14
15: Chapter 15
16: Chapter 16
17: Chapter 17
18: Chapter 18
19: Chapter 19
20: Chapter 20
21: Chapter 21
22: Chapter 22
24: Chapter 24
25: Chapter 25
26: Chapter 26
27: Chapter 27
Part Three: The Dying Kind28: Chapter 28
29: Chapter 29
30: Chapter 30
31: Chapter 31
32: Chapter 32
33: Chapter 33
34: Chapter 34
35: Chapter 35
36: Chapter 36
Part Four: Bury Them High37: Chapter 37
38: Chapter 38
39: Chapter 39
40: Chapter 40
41: Chapter 41
42: Chapter 42
43: Chapter 43
44: Chapter 44
45: Chapter 45
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Books by Michael Koryta
Newsletters
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2014 by Michael Koryta
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