{"product_id":"the-lost-ones-a-novel-isbn-9780062565976","title":"The Lost Ones: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eBUSTLE\u003c\/em\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTIME \u003c\/em\u003eMAGAZINE SUMMER READ RECOMMEND\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the International Thriller Writers, Strand Critics, and Barry Award for Best First Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A brave, unflinching heroine and brave, unflinching writing add up to an extraordinary debut--highly recommended.\"--Lee Child\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA dark, compulsively readable psychological suspense debut, the first in a new series featuring the brilliant, fearless, chaotic, and deeply flawed Nora Watts—a character as heartbreakingly troubled, emotionally complex, and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years—since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren’t looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets. Caring despite herself, she sets out to find Bonnie with her only companion, her mutt Whisper, knowing she risks reopening wounds that have never really healed—and plunging into the darkness with little to protect her but her instincts and a freakish ability to detect truth from lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe search uncovers a puzzling conspiracy that leads Nora on a harrowing journey of deception and violence, from the gloomy rain-soaked streets of Vancouver, to the icy white mountains of the Canadian interior, to the beautiful and dangerous island where she will face her most terrifying demon. All to save a girl she wishes had never been born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe call comes in just after five in the morning. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years—since the day she gave up her newborn daughter for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren’t looking for her, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, and cursed with unnervingly dark eyes that absorb the light around them—and can pierce deep into a person’s soul—Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets. Caring despite herself, she sets out to find Bonnie with her mutt, Whisper, as her only companion. While she risks reopening wounds that have never really healed, she plunges into the darkness with little to protect her but her instincts and a freakish ability to detect truth from lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe search uncovers a puzzling conspiracy that leads Nora on a harrowing journey of deception and violence, from the gloomy rain-soaked streets of Vancouver to the icy white mountains of the Canadian interior, to the beautiful and dangerous island where she will face her most terrifying demon. All to save a girl she wished had never been born.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Sheena Kamal is being hailed . . . as the next Gillian Flynn.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] searing debut...Though comparisons to Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander are inevitable, Nora blazes her own shining trail. A gritty, violent read with a tough, idiosyncratic, dryly witty heroine readers will root for even if they wouldn’t want to invite her home.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Utterly compelling, rich with voice and psychological insight, populated with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eheartbreakingly real characters, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Ones\u003c\/em\u003e will stay with you for a long, long time after you finish the last page. Perhaps forever.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffery Deaver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A brave, unflinching heroine and brave, unflinching writing add up to an extraordinary debut—highly recommended.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Suspenseful, atmospheric and often deeply moving, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Ones \u003c\/em\u003efeatures one of the most complicated and fascinating protagonists I’ve come across in a long time. I’d follow Nora Watts (and her dog, Whisper) anywhere.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison Gaylin, USA Today bestselling author\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fans of Scandinavian Noir will love every atmospheric moment of \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Ones\u003c\/em\u003e. Sheena Kamal lends an electric jolt to Nora’s daily fight as a survivor of trauma and addiction. 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