Synopses & Reviews
"Now this is the perfect plot for a summer beach novel". -- The New York Times Book Review
Talk radio host Rachel Snow buys the old house in which he had been raised in the Chicago suburb of Evansville, in an effort to recapture the happiness and stability that had been shattered by a series of blows that began with her father's death ten years ago and culminated with her recent divorce. She moves in, hopeful that a rekindled love affair with newsman Amos Curley and the return home of her teenage daughter, Edie, will start the healing. She and Edie are suddenly joined for the Christmas holidays by her mother, Camilia -- who brings her own memories and fears to this wary reunion.
As the three women struggle with their emotional turmoil, something sinister begins to happen on Rachel's radio show that will affect them all. A strangely sardonic listener calling himself the Truthseeker and claiming to be a notorious Chicago murderer begins to call Rachel on the air. The show's ratings shoot through the roof. But then the calls start coming to Rachel's home and she realizes that she and her family are being stalked -- not by some demented stranger, but by someone familiar with the most intimate secrets of her life. Rachel must pull together the pieces of her life, knowing finally that not even all the good intentions in the world can save her from facing painful truths.