As an FBI agent, she has never been comfortable in an urban environment or working in a team, she is a loner, which is why being the sole agent at Shattered Rock suits her so well. Cyrus Tanner and his dog, Roscoe, now live in her dilapidated childhood home, as Pine interviews various town residents about what happened that night, including Lauren Graham, Jackson Lineberry, and Myron and Britta Pringle. Interviews with local folks who knew the family back then unearth new leads as well as the surprising awareness that not everything Atlee has been told was the absolute truth - some of it not even close. Determined to finally uncover the truth, Atlee Pine’s journey home turns into a rollercoaster ride of murder, long-buried secrets and lies .

After a little reflection, I have decided that this book deserves 5-Stars and I have amended my rating accordingly. Atlee Pine, book 2: As a child Atlee Pine was viciously attacked and left for dead, whilst her twin was taken (and killed? The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This was clearly the right decision, as while this could’ve worked fine as a stand-alone, the revelations here feel important for the next book. Baldacci’s characterisation is brilliant and he quickly built up a cast of believable characters that lived in the small town of Andersonville.The evolution of Pine’s character – she is much easier to associate with in the second book of the series and you will find yourself rooting for her. While I want to know everything about Mercy Pine and her kidnapping, I think it is too soon in the series to solve this electrifying mystery. It all builds to an exciting ending as well as, of course, enough loose ends to get a good start on the next book.

She reflects on how these traumatic events led to her parents, Tim and Julia, leaving Georgia and how it tore their marriage apart, with Pine living with her mother, until Julia left her.

She is a trained investigator now and she intends to learn what happened that night and what happened to Mercy. In the first novel we learn that FBI agent Atlee Pine's twin sister, Mercy, was kidnapped, and likely killed, thirty years ago. In total, David has published 48 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers and several have been adapted for film and television. The story uses Atlee’s ongoing curiosity about her sister’s disappearance to permit the reader to see some of the backstory that she brings to the novel. Luckily Baldacci is one of those authors who treats his readers well, and we should not be waiting very long.