THE WOODS by Harlan Coben

Twenty years ago, four teens disappeared into the woods on a night the then teenage Paul Copeland was the camp counselor on duty. The bodies of two teens and the bloody clothes of the other two were found. One of the missing was Paul’s sister. An employee of the camp, later found to be a serial killer, was blamed.

Now the county prosecutor, Paul Copeland is trying the biggest case of his career and struggling to raise his young daughter when the boy who went missing from the camp that fateful night reappears as an adult murder victim. Did Copeland’s sister survive as well? As Copeland searches to find what really happened that night, he uncovers a past he knew nothing about. Will the truth set him free or will the things he finds destroy his future?

Harlen Coben delivers another page turning tale of suspense with THE WOODS. Incident by incident, Coben reveals the disturbing and frightening truth. The ending caught me by surprise but fit the clues so well I wondered how I had failed to figure it out on my own.