The Woman In The Rental Photos

von Knox Harrow

242 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"Every rental property tells two stories: the one in the listing, and the one the walls absorbed. We photograph only the first."Eleven years ago, Talia's mother drove to the grocery store and never came back. Her car was found abandoned at a rest stop off I-95, the engine still warm. Now a meticulous insurance-claims investigator, Talia has spent her adult life reading the difference between what people present and what's actually true.But nothing could prepare her for what she finds while scrolling through vacation rental listings on the Florida coast. In the background of the seventh photograph of a charming Cedar Key cottage, half-hidden behind a sheer curtain, is a woman. A woman with her mother's exact posture and a distinct gesture Talia could identify in a police lineup.Desperate for answers, Talia books the house. What she discovers upon arrival shatters her reality: a hallway ten and a half inches too narrow, a hidden room built seamlessly into the architecture, and a radio playing faintly behind the drywall. Her mother isn't just alive; she's been living in a concealed space within the walls, using a fake name and leaving cryptic clues.But Talia soon realizes she wasn't the one who found the photo-she was lured. The image was a carefully laid trap. As she uncovers a suffocating labyrinth of blackmail, a secret $340,000 custodial account, and a massive charity fraud orchestrated by the rental's charismatic owner, Talia must race to decode the messages her mother left behind. With her own career-ending secret hanging over her head and a deadly enemy closing in, Talia is about to learn that finding a missing person is dangerous, but rescuing them is deadly.

• ISBN: 9798235501546
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2026
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Knox Harrow