End of Story

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window returns with a mesmerizing thriller - part Knives Out, part Agatha Christie

yet utterly unlike anything you've ever read

"I'll be dead in three months

Come tell my story." So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction

With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story

living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine

Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life "detective fever." "You and I might even solve an old mystery or two." Twenty years earlier--on New Year's Eve 1999--Sebastian's first wife and teenaged son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again

Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past? "Life is hard

After all, it kills you." As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian's life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth

while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night

And when a corpse appears in the family's koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn't gone--it's just waiting.