The Hand You Are Dealt

by Marsha Ahrenkiel

They were the girls everyone admired and envied — until best friends Vanessa Kayden and Noelle Tyson vanished a few days apart. Their disappearance in 1994 terrified a community and confounded a police investigation.

Two decades later, Carson Kayden, a former cop turned investigator, makes a new effort to solve the mystery. He enlists the help of Noelle’s sister, Roxanne, a renowned psychic and tarot expert, and they join forces with a media company developing a podcast about the famous missing persons case. As Carson works to uncover the past, he’s both aided and unnerved by lovely Roxanne and her arsenal of devious practices. Can she help him find the answers he needs? Involvement with the Tysons once cost him his sister. This time the stakes could be higher.

The Hand You Are Dealt, a psychological mystery, examines the illusive lure of closure and the hold that the past has on all of us.

380 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 29, 2020

Reviews

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this book. I loved the characters and the story. So many details that were drawn together at the end. I would love to see more of Carson Kayden in the future.

[Amanda L · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was on the edge of my seat the whole book! I loved it, though I wish the end would have been a little more conclusive but after all of that I guess it’s natural I feel just as confused as Carson.