The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thrillerby Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettableaftermath of... » 

The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thrillerby Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettableaftermath of September 11 Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and placeunlike any other as it winds through the wounded streets of New York andStaten Island...and into a maze of old crimes damaged lives and heartbreakingrevelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a rivetingpiece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a worldchanged forever on a clear September morning. In a novel that will catch youoff guard at every turn and one that is guaranteed to become a classic S. J.Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as she daresyou to ponder the bonds of friendship the meaning of truth and the stuff ofheroism. «