The Stolen Hours

Allen Eskens

Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job-working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney-and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend Joe Talbert. But when a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River barely alive things in the office take a personal turn.

The police believe the woman's assailant is local photographer Gavin Spenser but the case quickly flounders as the evidence wears thin. It seems Gavin saw this investigation coming-and no one can imagine how carefully he has prepared.

The more determined Lila is to put Gavin behind bars the more elusive justice becomes. Battling a vindictive new boss and haunted by the ghosts of her own unspeakable attack which she's kept a dark secret for eight long years Lila knows the clock is ticking down. In a race against an evil mastermind it will take everything Lila's got to outsmart a killer-and to escape the dark hold of her own past.

"In The Stolen Hours there's not a moment misplaced or a second lost. With the precision of a watchmaker Eskens assembles the fine parts of a mystery and sets them to the tempo of a thriller leaving the reader breathless." -Craig Johnson author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries