Count to Three

by T.R. Ragan

Overview

For a private investigator on the trail of a missing girl, every second counts in a gripping thriller by New York Times bestselling author T.R. Ragan.

On her first day of kindergarten, five-year-old Tinsley disappeared without a trace…

Five agonizing years later, her divorced mother, Dani Callahan, is a private investigator. She and Quinn Sullivan, a promising young assistant determined to prove herself, are devoted to helping others find missing loved ones. And for Dani, finding Tinsley is still a never-ending obsession.

Their newest case is Ali Cross, a teenager who vanished off a Sacramento street while walking home. A troubled boy’s eyewitness testimony to Ali’s abduction provides their only clues. And as their search for Ali gets underway, new information about Tinsley’s disappearance begins to surface too.

As their investigations lead down two twisting paths, disturbing secrets are revealed and new victims find themselves in mortal danger. Time is running out, and the hunt is only getting grimmer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542093941
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	12/14/2021
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

T.R. Ragan is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of the Sawyer Brooks trilogy (Don’t Make a Sound, Out of Her Mind, and No Going Back), the Faith McMann trilogy (Furious, Outrage, and Wrath), the Lizzy Gardner series (Abducted, Dead Weight, A Dark Mind, Obsessed, Almost Dead, and Evil Never Dies), and the Jessie Cole novels (Her Last Day, Deadly Recall, Deranged, and Buried Deep). In addition to thrillers, she writes medieval time-travel tales, contemporary romance, and romantic suspense as Theresa Ragan. She has sold more than three million books since her debut novel appeared in 2011. Theresa is an avid traveler, and her wanderings have led her to China, Thailand, and Nepal. She and her husband, Joe, have four children and live in Sacramento, California. To learn more, visit www.theresaragan.com.

Editorial Reviews

This heartbreaking tale of child abduction and a mother’s tireless devotion will resonate with many.” —Publishers Weekly

“As brutal and intriguing as episodes of You…the story is captivating and the writing genuinely thrilling…Count to Three keeps the suspense up and threatens that the tides could turn at any time.” —Associated Press

From the Publisher

2021-09-15
A Sacramento shamus and her ambitious assistant search for a teenager whose abduction was witnessed by their preteen client.

Most private eyes wouldn’t touch a case at the behest of Ethan Grant. The kid smokes in front of them, has limited financial resources, and is only 12 years old. But both members of the Callahan Agency have their reasons for agreeing to look for Ali Cross, a high school–age painter whom Ethan saw knocked out and bundled into a van as he watched from a distance, paralyzed by fear. Quinn Sullivan hopes to make a case for her full partnership in the agency. And Dani Callahan still can’t forget the day five years ago when her daughter, Tinsley, left her first day of kindergarten with a woman dressed exactly like Dani and vanished. The trauma drove Dani and her husband, Matthew, apart, and now that he’s married Carole, a woman who won’t need the expensive fertility treatments that produced Tinsley, he just wants Dani to get over her loss. But Dani can’t get over it, and her inability to do so urges her to look for Ali, identify the mysterious figure who keeps breaking into attorney Cameron Bennington’s house, figure out why Quinn’s mother never came home from grocery shopping years ago, and identify the woman who kidnapped Tinsley. Readers hooked by Ragan’s earlier suspensers, such as No Going Back(2021), will wait with bated breath to watch all these threads come together—unless perhaps they don’t and have to be laboriously untangled one strand at a time.

By-the-book thrills lead to a cascade of anticlimaxes.

Kirkus Reviews