Hide in Place

She left the NYPD in the firestorm of a high-profile case gone horribly wrong. Three years later,the ghosts of her past roar back to terrifying life. When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird’s cover is blown in a racketeering case against the Russian mobshe flees the city with her troubled sonAlfie. Nowthree years latershe’s found the perfect haven in Sylvana charming town in upstate New York. But then the unthinkable happens: her boy vanishes. Local law enforcement dismisses the thirteen-year-old as a runawaybut Laney knows better. Alfie would never abandon his special routines and the sanctuary of their home. Could he have been kidnapped–or worse? As a February snowstorm rips through the regionLaney is forced to launch her own investigationusing every trick she learned in her years undercover. As she digs deeper into the disappearanceLaney learns that Alfie and a friend had been meeting with an older man who himself vanishedbut not before leaving a corpse in his garage. With dawning horrorLaney discovers that the man was a confidential informant from a high-profile case she had handled in the past. Although he had never known her real identityhe knows it now. Which means several other enemies dotoo. Time is running outand as Laney’s search for her son grows more desperateeverything depends on how good a detective she really is–badge or no.