Behind the Red Door
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"A haunting thriller" (PopSugar) about a woman who believes that she has a connection to a decades old kidnapping and begins a frantic investigation to find out what really happened when the victim goes missing again.
When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from…
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Megan has been transparent about the fact that Behind the Red Door is not the most popular of her books, but it’s my personal favorite!
Fern Douglas is out of the loop: a missing woman shows up on the news whose famous kidnapping two decades ago—and subsequent return—everyone seems to have heard about. But Fern has no memory of that story; she only knows that she has seen the woman’s face before, and she comes to fear that she might have somehow been involved in what happened to her.
This book has one of the best portrayals of chronic anxiety…
From Amy's list on amateur sleuths who have no idea what they’re doing.
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