"He?s gone?" ? When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it?s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. ? Rebus fears the worst ? and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. ? He wasn?t the best father ? the job always came first ? but now his daughter needs him more than ever.? But is he going as a father or a detective? ? As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast ? and a small town with big secrets ? he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn?t want to find?