Author: lizmoore

A New York Times bestseller hailed as “tough, tense, and twisty — but tender, human, and deeply affecting, too” (Lee Child): When her sister disappears amid a series of murders, Mickey is determined to uncover the truth. “You will not see the end coming” (NPR).

Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David’s mysterious history comes into question. When his mind begins to falter, leaving Ada virtually … virtually an orphan, she is taken in by one of David’s colleagues. Soon she embarks on a mission to uncover her father’s secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. What Ada discovers…

A talented teenager forges a life-changing connection to a recluse who grapples with his weight. With nearly 4,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads, this is “a stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale… about relationships of the most makeshift kind” (O, The Oprah Magazine).