What Remains
The absolutely unputdownable New York Times Editors' Choice
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'Absolutely splendid storytelling, a book to entertain, to immerse, and to challenge' AJ FINN
'Wendy Walker at her best!' B.A. PARIS
'I was gripped from the first page' ALICE FEENEY
'What Remains starts with a bang - literally - and doesn't let you go until the final, exquisite resolution' JULIE CLARK
'Incredibly tense, utterly authentic and endlessly intriguing' CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD
'Chilling psychological acuity... Part of the fun is figuring out how everything ties together in the end' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
SHE SAVED HIS LIFE. NOW HE'LL NEVER LET HER GO.
Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order, at work with her ex-marine partner; at home with her husband and two young daughters; and within, battling her own demons.
Elise has everything under control. Until one afternoon, when she walks into a department store and is forced to make a terrible choice: to save one life, she will have to take another.
Steeped in guilt, and on a leave of absence from work, she's numb, even to her husband and daughters, until she connects with Wade Austin, the tall man whose life she saved. But Elise soon realizes that he isn't who he says he is. In fact, Wade Austin isn't even his real name.
The tall man is a ghost, one who will set off a terrifying game of cat and mouse, threatening Elise and the people she loves most.
Praise for Wendy Walker:
'Dark and twisted' REESE WITHERSPOON
'Deeply intriguing and provocative... ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN is not to be missed' KARIN SLAUGHTER
'Unsettling in the best way and truly riveting' SAMANTHA DOWNING
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this middling thriller from Walker (American Girl), Det. Elise Sutton is in a Connecticut department store when shots ring out. Near the dressing rooms, she spies an armed 20-something man taking aim at a tall, frightened man. Elise—a cold case investigator—kills the gunman before he can claim a single life, but despite being hailed as a hero, she's wracked with guilt for doing so. The man she saved doesn't give a statement, so Elise seeks him out and is relieved when his account vindicates her actions. She soon discovers, however, that the man started stalking her post-shooting, and nearly everything he told her was a lie, including his name. When he begins threatening Elise's husband, police partner, and daughters, Elise realizes he won't stop unless she makes him. Walker intercuts Elise's first-person-present narration with chapters detailing an investigation into human remains found in a hunting shelter's cremation oven, though the subplot feels awkwardly shoehorned in. And though Elise's stalker is terrifying, her reactions to his escalations strain credibility, blunting the story's impact. Walker has done much better.
