It is always satisfying to discover a new crime writer -and this is the business.., his book will keep you up until 2 a.m.

An increasingly frightening conspiracy with an unguessable ending. Coben's style is as relaxed as ever, but he still manages to make this a story which is hard to put down.

Every year Elizabeth and David Beck return to Lake Charmaine, a place that has been a part of their lives ever since they were children. But on their thirteenth visit, Elizabeth is kidnapped and murdered, while David is left for dead.

For the next eight years, Dr David Beck relives the horror of what happened every day of his life. Although Elizabeth has been buried, and her killer waits on death row, for David, it still feels as if more than one life ended on-that night.

Then an image of Elizabeth appears on his computer screen,brutally ripping open the old wounds. Is it just a practical oke? Or evidence that somehow Elizabeth is still alive?Suddenly Beck is running away from his safe, ordinary life,and all the people he trusts. He's chasing a ghost whose messages hold out a desperate hope - and warn him to tell no one. But soon Dr Beck himself is being hunted down...