When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand,
around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them
are just ecstatic to have discovered that their baby monitors reach that far.
It’s a rare kid-free night, and they’re giddy with it. They drink too much, and
the conversation turns personal.
By Monday morning, one of them is gone.
Everyone knows something about everyone else in
the quirky small Ohio town of Yellow Springs, but no one can make sense of the
disappearance. Kristin was a sociable twin mom, college administrator, and
doctor’s wife who didn’t seem all that bothered by her impending divorce—and
the investigation turns up more questions than answers, with her husband, Paul,
at the center. For her closest neighbor, Clara, the incident triggers memories
she thought she’d put behind her—and when she’s unable to extract herself from
the widening circle of scrutiny, her own suspicions quickly grow. But the
neighborhood’s newest addition, Izzy, is determined not to jump to any
conclusions—especially since she’s dealing with a crisis of her own.
As the police investigation goes from a media
circus to a cold case, the neighbors are forced to reexamine what’s going on
behind their own closed doors—and to ask how well anyone really knows anyone
else.
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