Boston private investigator Alex Rourke is looking forward to the weekend. He's heading to Vermont to visit his girlfriend, and also plans to do some checking on his latest missing-person case: a young man named Adam Wedd who made the same journey, and never came back.

But the truth about Adam Webb isn't the only secret buried in the Green Mountain woods. Hikers have gone missing, a prostitute has been murdered, and something sinister is happening in the ghost-town of North Bleakwater. It soon becomes clear that in the mountains, who you trust can mean the difference between life and death. And Alex will have to make decisions with his heart as well as his head.

Because a single bullet is about to blow his world to pieces.

"A clever, gripping and original thriller."
Time Out