The Hidden Things

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A brilliantly original thriller and a startling, smart, vivid book (Tana French, New York Times bestselling author) from the acclaimed author of Three Graves Fullinspired by the real-life unsolved theft of a seventeenth-century painting.

Twenty-eight seconds.

In less than half a minute, a home-security camera captures the hidden resolve in fourteen-year-old Carly Liddell as she fends off a vicious attack just inside her own front door. The video of her heroic escape appears online and goes viral. As the view count climbs, the lives of four desperate people will be forever changed by whats just barely visible in the corner of the shot.

Carlys stepfather is spurred to protect his darkest secret: how a stolen paintingfour hundred years old, by a master of the Dutch Golden Agehas come to hang in his suburban foyer. The art dealer, left for dead when the painting vanished, sees a chance to buy back her life. And the double-crossed enforcer renews the hunt to deliver the treasure to his billionaire patronseven if he has to kill to succeed.

But its Carly herself, hailed as a social-media hero, whose new perspective gives her the courage to uncover the truth as the secrets and lies tear her family apart.

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"Hidden Things is a treat: a heist story taken to pieces and expertly put back together at off-kilter angles into a startling, smart, vivid book."

--Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of The Witch Elm

Author Bio

Jamie Mason was born in Oklahoma City and grew up in Washington, DC. Shes most often reading and writing, but in the life left over, she enjoys films, Formula 1 racing, football, traveling, and, conversely, staying at home. Jamie lives with her husband and two daughters in the mountains of western North Carolina. She is the author of Three Graves Full, Mondays Lie, and The Hidden Things.