Linwood Barclay (Get this book)Early in this intricately plotted stand-alone from Arthur Ellis Award winner Barclay, middle-aged PI Cal Weaver hesitates to pick up a teenage girl hitchhiking one evening outside a bar in Griffon, N.Y., just across the Canadian border. He decides to give her a ride after she says she was a friend of Cal's teenage son, Scott, who died a few months earlier while under the influence of ecstasy. Barclay offers one surprise after another in a mystery that unfolds with the mundane heroism and tragedy of a local news story.--Publisher's Weekly
