Dead Girl Running

The New York Times–bestselling author is at her most wildly entertaining, wickedly witty best in this edgy novel of memory and murder.

I have three confessions to make:

1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead.

2. I don't remember an entire year of my life.

3. My name is Kellen Adams . . . and that's half a lie.

Running—from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear—tough, capable Kellen Adams takes a job as assistant manager of a remote vacation resort on the North Pacific Coast. There amid the towering storms and the lashing waves, she hopes to find sanctuary. But when she discovers a woman's dead and mutilated body, she's soon trying to keep her own secrets while investigating first one murder . . . then another.

Now every guest and employee is a suspect. Every friendly face a mask. Every kind word a lie. Kellen's driven to defend her job, her friends, and the place she's come to call home. Yet she wonders: With a previous head injury and amnesia that leaves her unsure of her own past, could the killer be staring her in the face?