Presumed Guilty Author Forename:Scott

Presumed Guilty Author Forename:ScottRusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon to be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that's taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea's young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn't return soon, he

But when Molly's life is put in danger

Following many years apart

But he is never found

unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to vanish

and the case grows ever more complex

Yates and puzzle expert Bruce Pitchers

They say old habits die hard

But it can be enough to change how you see it

Kate can feel she's being watched

Liss has raised Callan as her own

Now stranded at the retreat

a missing teenager down by the lake