20 Great Thrillers, June 2012

Some stones are better left unturned, as NEVER KNOWING demonstrates.. Sara Gallagher has a satisfying life but is consumed with learning the identity of her birth mother and contacting her. When Sara is successful in both endeavors she is coldly rejected by the woman, a university professor living a solitary life. Sara discovers that her mother was the sole surviving victim of a notorious serial killer, who, as it turns out, is in fact Sara’s biological father. And when the killer learns that he has a daughter, he will stop at nothing to claim her. This is one of the best books of last year.