num_pages: 496
description: Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows a quaint charming town outside of New York City. It's a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another's kids where people say hello in the grocery store and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother she has happily returned to The Hollows's insular embrace. As a psychologist her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patients' lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son Rick disappears Maggie's intuitive gift proves useful to the case--and also dangerous.The investigation has her husband Jones the lead detective on the case acting strangely. Rick already a brooding teenager becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present nobody is above suspicion not even a son in the eyes of his father.Determined to uncover the truth Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene's disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret--one that could destroy everything she holds dear.
language: English
title: Fragile
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard