When a four-year-old girl disappears the night after her birthday party, all the guests are suspects. Except for the one who turned up dead. Mary Kubica meets Lisa Jewell in this dark and twisty mystery of domestic suspense.

SHE’S MINE
by Susan Walter
Blackstone, February 2027
(via Laura Dail Literary)

Summer Brownley’s marriage is ending and her heart is in pieces, but she still threw a damn good party. Afterward, though she really shouldn’t, she curls up with a bottle of wine. It’s her soon-to-be exhusband’s night with the kids, what could go wrong?

Well, everything.

The FBI arrives at dawn. Her four-year-old daughter is missing. But the kidnapping is just the beginning of her nightmare. Because as the search for her daughter begins, one of her party guests turns up dead.

There is no shortage of suspects: the cheating ex-husband, a best friend with regrets, a covetous surrogate. Every new lead uncovers another lie. FBI Agent Willow Thorne is assigned to the case. Thorne has a knack for noticing what people choose not to tell her, but there’s something about this case that has her second-guessing herself. If Summer wants to help Thorne find the kidnapper, she’s going to have to expose her tightly-held secrets.

Before her daughter is gone for good.

Susan Walter is a recovering screenwriter and film director who started writing books to kill people because it was frowned upon in real life. Ha! Her first five books include Good As Dead and Lie by the Pool.