A most Anticipated Book of The Year bull, A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. "A gritty heartbreaker of a thriller hellip, Part heartfelt coming-of-age tale, part brutal Irish noir, this is a spectacular read for Donna Tartt and Tana French fans". Kirkus in the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They Helen, Joe, and Mush, were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group's white-hot center. Soon after that summer's peak, Kala disappeared without a trace. Now it's fifteen years later - Helen has reluctantly returned to Ireland for her father's wedding, Joe is a world-famous musician, newly back in town, and Mush has never left, too scared to venture beyond the counter of his mother's cafe. But human remains have been discovered in the woods. Two more girls have gone missing. And as past and present begin to collide, the estranged friends are forced to confront their own complicity in the events that led to Kala's disappearance.