Book of The Month discussion

Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved foster parents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage girl has gone missing. The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in Anna's childhood, when the unsolved murder of a young girl touched Mendocino and changed the community forever.

As past and present collide, Anna realizes that she has been led to this moment. The most difficult lessons of her life have given her insight into how victims come into contact with violent predators. As Anna becomes obsessed with the missing girl, she must accept that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in.

Weaving together actual cases of missing persons, trauma theory, and a hint of the metaphysical, this propulsive and deeply affecting novel tells a story of fate, necessary redemption, and what it takes, when the worst happens, to reclaim our lives--and our faith in one another.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes a novel of intertwined destinies and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal?

Part 1

(view spoiler)[ this is really good so far. I can't imagine finding kids being my job - so tough

and she's clearly lost a baby but we don't know why

I wonder what's happened to this missing girl and if it will tie back to the girl missing so long ago (hide spoiler)]

Part 2

(view spoiler)[ hmmm. . .not a lot of details at all about the previous kidnapping, Jenny.

and I don't have any real guesses about what's going on with these girls - but I'm not sure they are all connected. Cameron seems like a one off and not tied to, at least, Penny

but maybe the other one? hmmm. . .we didn't get a lot in this last one, just a lot of checking things off

but the last few mysteries I've read, it was the teacher so I'm really glad, so far, that it doesn't seem to be this one. (hide spoiler)]

Part 3

(view spoiler)[ Wow, all the files he has, all the time he's spent trying to solve Jenny's disappearance (and others!) I wonder what they will find. I'm still super curious about this mystery!

and now they've found the first girl. The wires match Polly but nothing else I don't think
but matches Cameron.
I still don't have a single person on my radar and I can't wait to see where this goes now!! (hide spoiler)]

I'm done
wow, this one was really really good!

(view spoiler)[ I had no idea it would be Caleb but he held himself so far from it all blaming it on grief when he was really the bad guy all along

I'm so glad we got the answers for Jenny. I was really worried we wouldn't (hide spoiler)]