Maybe he was sick of me staring at his injured lip.
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Table of Contents
About the book
Title Page
Contents
Epigraph
Dedication
Part 1 Buried 1968
The Beginning
The Thing She Left Behind
The Story Jack Tells
What Mrs Nolan Knows
The Thing that Shouldn’t Be There
The World Without Her
Almost Proof
A Definite Lie
What JJ Owes Jack
A Clue at Last
The More that Doesn’t Add Up
Mrs Tyler’s Suspicion
It’s Got to End
Part 2 Unburied 1982
Another Beginning?
Marking Time
Proof
Jack Skids Away
What Tessa Knows
What’s Jack Scared of?
That Missing Thing
Order Into Chaos
The Missing Pages
Tim’s Lead
What Nancy Really Knew
Philly’s Puzzle Piece
What Jack Admits
The Size of Truth
The Mop Up
An Unexpected Clue
Setting the Trap
Caught
Appreciation
Book Club Questions
About the Author
Torched Sample chapter
Prologue
Imprint
