Before He Finds Her - Paperback

by Michael Kardos (Author)

A girl in witness protection hunts for her fugitive father in this thriller with "an ending you don't see coming" (The New York Times Book Review).

Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story. One day in the early 1990s, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party--then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter.

But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Under another name, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the witness protection program. She has never been allowed to travel, go to a school dance, or even get onto the internet at home. Precautions must be taken at every turn, because Ramsey Miller was never caught and might still be looking for his daughter.

But now she has a pressing reason to defy her guardians and take matters into her own hands. Returning to Silver Bay, she hopes to do what the authorities have failed to do: find her father before he finds her . . .

"A compelling story about sad truths, loss, and resilience . . . should make fantastic fodder for book-group discussions." --Booklist
"[An] outstanding crime thriller." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Read the first page and kiss the next 24 hours goodbye." --Jeffery Deaver

Author Biography

Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the novel The Three-Day Affair and the story collection One Last Good Time. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he codirects the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.