The Missing Forty Minutes

Matt Brunner's ten-year-old daughter just landed the lead role at the most elite dance studio in suburban Ohio — and the body at the bottom of the back stairwell belongs to the man who swore to destroy her career. A claims adjuster with a set of borrowed keys and forty minutes he can't account for, Matt finds himself tangled in a web of bribery, ambition, and parental obsession. As a dogged detective closes in, Matt must decide how much truth his family can survive.