On a rainy night‎,‎ a man gives a teenage girl a lift home‎,‎ but the girl he picks up isn‎'‎t the same one he drops off ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎Bestseller Linwood Barclay hooks the reader from page one with this suspense masterpiece When Cal Weaver stops at a red light on a rainy night while driving home‎,‎ he ignores the bedraggled‎-looking teenage girl trying to hitch a ride ‎- even when she starts tapping on his window‎.‎ But when he realises she‎'‎s one of his son‎'‎s classmates‎,‎ he knows he can‎'‎t really leave her‎,‎ alone‎,‎ on the street‎.‎ But nothing prepares him for the consequences of trying to help her out‎.‎ The next morning he‎'‎s gone from Good Samaritan to Murder Suspect‎,‎ and with one girl dead and another missing‎,‎ he‎'‎s suddenly at the centre of a deadly puzzle that reaches right to the heart of the town ‎- from its bullying police force to its strangely furtive mayor ‎- and finally to one family‎'‎s shocking secret‎.‎