Sarah Keller is a skip tracer, tracking criminals who have gone on the lam. She’s also a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in small-town Oklahoma—until an accident sends Zoe to the ER, and their life changes in a heartbeat. Medical tests reveal a desperate secret Sarah has been hiding for years: Zoe is not her daughter, but rather a girl once rescued from a nightmare of murder, vengeance, and harrowing family ties she can’t possibly remember. Sarah does. And someone wants to make sure she never forgets.
Now Sarah must abandon her carefully constructed life and take Zoe on the run. Using her knowledge as a skip tracer to stay off the grid, she must remain one step ahead of her pursuers if she is to stay alive, save Zoe, and bury the past once and for all.
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### From Booklist
As a skip tracer, single mother Sarah Keller tracks down slippery criminals who have gone on the lam. But Keller becomes a target of pursuit herself when, in a heart-stopping moment, she saves her dying sister Beth’s baby girl, Zoe, from a doomed fate: life with her father, Nolan, who murdered Beth. In the months following the dramatic rescue, Sarah settles into a relatively tranquil life in Oklahoma City, minding her own business and doing her job. But when Zoe lands in the hospital after a bus accident, medical tests call into question Sarah’s rights as mother to the child. Soon she finds herself on the run from Nolan and his crazy family. Though she knows just about every trick for evading capture, Sarah only manages to stay one step and breath ahead of her enemies. Help comes in unlikely forms (a nun in New Mexico, for one), but Sarah lives in perpetual fear of being caught—or worse. Edgar Award winner Gardiner (Ransom River, 2012) steadily ratchets up the suspense in this taut stand-alone tale. --Allison Block
### Review
**Praise for *The Shadow Tracer***
“A plot-driven cat-and-mouse game for adrenaline junkies with surprises in every chapter.”—*The Boston Globe *
“Gardiner lifts the suspense to an almost unbearable level.”—Bookreporter.com
“Pulse-pounding action…packed with surprises and harrowing escapes.”*—Publishers Weekly *
“Beautifully executed.…Gardiner firmly plants herself in the hallowed suburban nightmarish grounds of Lisa Gardner and Harlan Coben.”—*The Providence Journal *
“Gardiner will keep you up half the night with nonstop action and nary a pause for breath.”—*Kirkus Reviews *(starred review)
“Heart-stopping….Gardiner steadily ratchets up the suspense.”—*Booklist *
“Should not be missed.”—*Library Journal *
“Great crime fiction…Get ready for a rollicking roller coaster ride.”—*The Best Reviews *
**Further praise for Meg Gardiner, hailed by Stephen King as “the next suspense susperstar.”**
“[A] tidal wave of adrenaline.”—*People* (3½ out of 4 stars)
“A high-wire act with suspects and subplots whizzing back and forth between action-packed chapters.”—*The Washington Post *
“[A] freezerload of scare-you-silly chills.”—Stephen King
“A first class thriller…that will have you glued to the pages.”—*Chicago Sun-Times *
“Gripping suspense.”—*Minneapolis Star Tribune *
“A humdinger of a thriller, with shocks and twists galore.”—Tess Gerritsen
“[An] appealing, entertaining thriller...twist after twist.”—*The Baltimore Sun *
“A crackerjack thriller…intense…Devious twists abound.”—*The Miami Herald *
“Smart, lively prose.”—*The Washington Post *
“Steeped in nonstop action, psychological terror…and unpredictable twists.”—*South Florida Sun-Sentinel *
“A book no reader of thrillers will be able to put down...Meg Gardiner gives us everything.”—Elizabeth George
“Harrowing.”—Jeffery Deaver
Description:
Sarah Keller is a skip tracer, tracking criminals who have gone on the lam. She’s also a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in small-town Oklahoma—until an accident sends Zoe to the ER, and their life changes in a heartbeat. Medical tests reveal a desperate secret Sarah has been hiding for years: Zoe is not her daughter, but rather a girl once rescued from a nightmare of murder, vengeance, and harrowing family ties she can’t possibly remember. Sarah does. And someone wants to make sure she never forgets. Now Sarah must abandon her carefully constructed life and take Zoe on the run. Using her knowledge as a skip tracer to stay off the grid, she must remain one step ahead of her pursuers if she is to stay alive, save Zoe, and bury the past once and for all. ** ### From Booklist As a skip tracer, single mother Sarah Keller tracks down slippery criminals who have gone on the lam. But Keller becomes a target of pursuit herself when, in a heart-stopping moment, she saves her dying sister Beth’s baby girl, Zoe, from a doomed fate: life with her father, Nolan, who murdered Beth. In the months following the dramatic rescue, Sarah settles into a relatively tranquil life in Oklahoma City, minding her own business and doing her job. But when Zoe lands in the hospital after a bus accident, medical tests call into question Sarah’s rights as mother to the child. Soon she finds herself on the run from Nolan and his crazy family. Though she knows just about every trick for evading capture, Sarah only manages to stay one step and breath ahead of her enemies. Help comes in unlikely forms (a nun in New Mexico, for one), but Sarah lives in perpetual fear of being caught—or worse. Edgar Award winner Gardiner (Ransom River, 2012) steadily ratchets up the suspense in this taut stand-alone tale. --Allison Block ### Review **Praise for *The Shadow Tracer*** “A plot-driven cat-and-mouse game for adrenaline junkies with surprises in every chapter.”—*The Boston Globe * “Gardiner lifts the suspense to an almost unbearable level.”—Bookreporter.com “Pulse-pounding action…packed with surprises and harrowing escapes.”*—Publishers Weekly * “Beautifully executed.…Gardiner firmly plants herself in the hallowed suburban nightmarish grounds of Lisa Gardner and Harlan Coben.”—*The Providence Journal * “Gardiner will keep you up half the night with nonstop action and nary a pause for breath.”—*Kirkus Reviews *(starred review) “Heart-stopping….Gardiner steadily ratchets up the suspense.”—*Booklist * “Should not be missed.”—*Library Journal * “Great crime fiction…Get ready for a rollicking roller coaster ride.”—*The Best Reviews * **Further praise for Meg Gardiner, hailed by Stephen King as “the next suspense susperstar.”** “[A] tidal wave of adrenaline.”—*People* (3½ out of 4 stars) “A high-wire act with suspects and subplots whizzing back and forth between action-packed chapters.”—*The Washington Post * “[A] freezerload of scare-you-silly chills.”—Stephen King “A first class thriller…that will have you glued to the pages.”—*Chicago Sun-Times * “Gripping suspense.”—*Minneapolis Star Tribune * “A humdinger of a thriller, with shocks and twists galore.”—Tess Gerritsen “[An] appealing, entertaining thriller...twist after twist.”—*The Baltimore Sun * “A crackerjack thriller…intense…Devious twists abound.”—*The Miami Herald * “Smart, lively prose.”—*The Washington Post * “Steeped in nonstop action, psychological terror…and unpredictable twists.”—*South Florida Sun-Sentinel * “A book no reader of thrillers will be able to put down...Meg Gardiner gives us everything.”—Elizabeth George “Harrowing.”—Jeffery Deaver