Criminologist, Maeve Rosetti, returns home to help search for her fifteen-year-old niece who vanished from a school dance. In the process, childhood secrets and old wounds emerge with the girl's mother, the sister Maeve left behind. Where is Jessica? The police believe she is holed up with a friend to punish her parents, but Maeve has serious doubts. Time is ticking and every day her niece is missing hope fades she will be found alive.

A couple of off-the-grid inhabitants raise suspicion. Could one of them have kidnapped Jessica? Murdered her? Then, her brother-in-law’s strange behavior sows a seed of doubt. And there are parts of their childhood sister Kathleen doesn’t want to talk about either, especially the unsolved disappearance of their father. Maeve agonizes over revealing her own dark past to the sibling she yearns to reconnect with. Is it too much of a risk?

As time wears on with no sign of her niece, Maeve becomes a target for menacing forces that taunt her, threaten to harm her. Just how far will someone go to stop her investigation? And could the tormentor be connected to the still-missing Jessica? Along with her newfound ally, Hank, Maeve aims to find out.

But when a girl’s body is found, she fears it is too late.

The bonds of family are fragile, easily broken. How well do sisters really know each other? Will a crisis facilitate healing or sever their relationship forever? She Thought I Knew is a tense, psychological thriller that heaps secrets upon secrets. You’ll never guess the end unless you peek. (please don’t!) Fans of Lisa Jackson will love it with Louise Penny
thrown in for good measure.

by C.S. Cowan