The Elliott Mercer series · Book two
Where the Missing Go
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Twenty-three years ago, nineteen-year-old Mara Bell disappeared from the Blue Haven Motor Lodge. In the years that followed, people kept seeing her—a restaurant in Dayton, a bus station in Indiana, a pharmacy outside Columbus. A postcard arrived. A phone call came. Each new trace reinforced the story everyone had accepted: Mara left voluntarily and did not want to be found.
Then human remains are discovered beneath Room Six.
Newly transferred to Cold Case, Detective Elliott Mercer is assigned to determine whether the bones belong to Mara—and how a woman buried beneath a motel could have continued moving through the world for years after her death. The deeper Elliott and his partner dig, the more the Blue Haven reveals itself as a place built on other people’s disappearances, where some women were hiding, others were being hidden, and the difference was never as simple as anyone wanted to believe.
Someone manufactured Mara’s continued life. Someone made sure her family stopped looking in the right place. And to return Mara’s story to her, Elliott must unravel the version everyone found easiest to believe.
