Sheena Kamal – författare

The brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts—introduced in the "utterly compelling" (Jeffery Deaver) atmospheric thriller The Lost Ones—finds deadly trouble as she searches for the truth about her late father in this immersive thriller that moves from the hazy Canadian Pacific Northwest to the gritty, hollowed streets of Detroit.

Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent—her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can’t ignore—and dark emotions she can’t control. To make her peace with the past, she has to confront it.

Finding the truth about her father’s life and his violent death takes her from Vancouver to Detroit where Sam Watts grew up, far away from his people and the place of his birth. Thanks to a disastrous government policy starting in the 1950s, thousands of Canadian native children like Sam were adopted by American families. In the Motor City, Nora discovers that the circumstances surrounding Sam’s suicide are more unsettling than she’d imagined.

Yet no matter how far away Nora gets from Vancouver, she can’t shake trouble. Back in the Pacific Northwest, former police detective turned private investigator Jon Brazuca is looking into the overdose death of a billionaire’s mistress. His search uncovers a ruthless opiate ring and a startling connection to Nora, the infuriatingly distant woman he’d once tried to befriend. He has no way to warn or protect her, because she’s become a ghost, vanishing completely off the grid.

Focused on the mysterious events of her father’s past and the clues they provide to her own fractured identity and that of her estranged daughter, Nora may not be able to see the danger heading her way until it’s too late. But it’s not her father’s old ties that could get her killed—it’s her own.

A female PI and her daughter are targeted by a killer in “a dark, moody, complex thriller with a complex woman protagonist . . . I love love love these books” (Roxane Gay, New York Times–bestselling author of Hunger).

A People Magazine Best New Book Pick

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by CrimeReads, LitHub, and Book Riot!

Find your enemy. Before he finds you.

Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers’ surfaces, and for knowing what they’re working hard to keep hidden. Somehow, it’s the people closest to her she has trouble truly connecting with. In the case of Bonnie, the teenage daughter Nora gave up for adoption, she has to keep trying. For Bonnie has a target on her back—and it’s all because of Nora.

Two years ago, Bonnie was kidnapped by the wealthy Zhang family. Though Nora rescued her, she made a powerful enemy in Dao, a mysterious triad enforcer and former head of the Zhangs’ private security. Now Dao is out for revenge, and she needs to track him down in order to keep herself—and Bonnie—safe.

On Dao’s trail, Nora forms an unlikely partnership with Bernard Lam, an eccentric playboy billionaire with his own mysterious grudge to bear, and reunites with Jon Brazuca, ex-cop turned private investigator and Nora’s occasional ally. From Canada to southeast Asia they pursue Dao, uncovering a shadowy criminal cabal. But soon, the trail will lead full circle to Vancouver, the only home Nora’s ever known, and right to the heart of her brutal past.

“A dynamic addition to a consistently thrilling series.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Fans of thrillers starring strong women will enjoy this Vancouver set story of love facing down evil.” —Booklist

On a surveillance assignment for a child custody case, PI-in-training Nora Watts finds herself ensconced in a small farming community on a beautiful hippie island in the Pacific Northwest, a place with a reputation for being welcoming to outsiders. But when she arrives there, she discovers her welcome quickly wears thin. Perhaps too quickly. 

Salt Spring Island, with a history as a refuge for African Americans fleeing the bonds of slavery, is not a place of refuge for her—and, she suspects, may not be for the people who live there, either. 

As she investigates, nothing about this remote community seems to add up. It gets personal as Nora confronts her own complicated feelings toward her estranged daughter and becomes increasingly concerned about the child she’s been tasked to surveil. She discovers that small, idyllic communities can hide very big secrets. 

Included with this short story is a sneak peek at the next Nora Watts novel from Sheena Kamal, It All Falls Down

Hon trodde att hon lagt sitt förflutna bakom sig. Men hon hade fel.En dag kommer telefonsamtalet som vänder uppochner på Nora Watts värld. Bonnie, hennes bortadopterade dotter, är försvunnen. Eftersom hon rymt hemifrån flera gånger tidigare tar polisen det inte på allvar och Nora, som dottern försökt kontakta, är de desperata adoptivföräldrarnas sista utväg.Nora har länge försökt lämna sitt gamla liv bakom sig och bestämmer sig motvilligt för att leta reda på Bonnie. Hon ger sig av, från de regnvåta gatorna i Vancouver via Kanadas snötäckta berg till ön, där hon tvingas konfrontera sitt förflutna – allt för att rädda det barn hon aldrig ville ha.Sheena Kamal föddes i Karibien och kom till Kanada som barn. Hon har en examen i statsvetenskap och har tidigare arbetat som kriminalresearcher för film och tv. Hon bor idag i Vancouver. De som försvann är hennes kritikerrosade debut och har sålts till femton länder.