Ray Jackson's wife, Leigh, has disappeared, and he can't get the images of all the homes he lived in as a child out of his head. When Kat, an old friend of Leigh's, shows up wanting to see her estranged friend, she's bothered by the fact that Ray isn't looking for his wife. She quickly begins to suspect that Ray may be responsible for Leigh's disappearance and starts an investigation.

But Ray is obsessing over his old homes and his collection of keys. He kept keys from every place he lived with his mother and he begins taking those keys and going back to the houses. Surprisingly, since people rarely change locks, many still work. He's looking for something, but he's not sure what -- and he's a little unsure he wants to know.

As he begins to understand the violence of his past, Ray must face violence in the present.

Clear your schedule for another terrific Perri O'Shaughnessy book. "Did he or didn't he" is the primary question, and while there are many others, that one alone will keep you flipping pages, tempted for the first time in your life to read the end -- first. Excellent and chilling!

Book Summary

When Leigh Jackson disappeared, her husband, Ray, seemed clueless: Has she run away? Was she a crime victim? Ray himself is enigmatic: a brilliant but obsessive architect, secretive yet devoted to exposing the truth. And while he begins his quest to discover what Leigh disappearance may means—and how it may be tied to his peripatetic childhood— Leigh's best friend begins investigating Ray ... an investigation that cannot seem to open the locked doors of his past.