Leave No Trace
An unputdownable thriller packed with suspense and dark family secrets
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
A completely gripping thriller full of dark family secrets and packed with suspense. For fans of Jane Harper.
There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned. Until now.
Lucas Blackthorn is nineteen, semi-feral, and now incarcerated in Congdon Psychiatric Institute after committing a violent assault. The police are desperate to hear his story; all Lucas wants is to return to the Boundary Waters, and his father.
Therapist Maya Stark is tasked with preparing Lucas to face the world's questions. Maya has her own unfinished business with the Boundary Waters and, as she and Lucas grow closer, she sees a chance for them to help each other.
She is prepared to risk everything to reunite him with his father and get answers to the questions that have haunted her all her adult life. But sometimes finding the truth is the worst thing you can do...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Freshly certified speech therapist Maya Stark, the narrator of this atmospheric though flawed psychological thriller from Mejia (Everything You Want Me to Be), knows she's in over her head when Dr. Mehta who only a few years ago was her own psychiatrist at the Duluth, Minn., mental hospital where she now works pressures her into trying to break through to 19-year-old Lucas Blackthorn, a violent, silent new patient. Until his recent arrest during an attempted robbery, Lucas was presumed dead after vanishing a decade earlier with his father into the vast Boundary Waters wilderness on the Canadian border. The ruggedly handsome Lucas and his single-minded determination to escape back into the wild to save his ailing parent will soon affect Maya so deeply that she embarks on a series of increasingly dangerous decisions that could cost her job. Although overly plotted, especially with what feel like forced symmetries between Maya's and Lucas's backstories, the novel is saved by its arresting characters none more so than the mysterious, primeval expanse of the Boundary Waters itself. Mejia remains a writer to watch.)
