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In Jane Whitefield’s 10th and last appearance, the heroine who specializes in engineering other people’s disappearances faces her most daunting workload. This is Perry’s final novel, completed before his death in Sept. 2025. Soon after a traffic accident brings Jane’s pregnancy to an improbably happy conclusion, she’s confronted by 16-year-old Clare Markham, a fugitive from justice who countered a man’s attempt to rape her by stabbing him to death. Instead of taking her chances with the authorities in Oklahoma, Clare—who, like Jane, is a Seneca—has made her way to upstate New York to ask Jane to help her vanish for good. The task is complicated by the sudden appearance of Brian Finlay, whose boss, Barton Stillivant, wants him dead to protect the secret that Stillivant is a merchant in illegal arms. Stillivant’s gone with the best expert in the field: Magda Kaprovna, a thief he had released from a California women’s prison, ostensibly to be deported, but actually to be brought back to the U.S. to track and kill his former executive assistant. When Brian inadvertently leads Magda to Jane, she realizes it won’t be enough to help him and Clare disappear; she’ll have to disappear herself, along with her husband, Dr. Carey McKinnon, and their newborn daughter, May Dawn. Despite the warning of Harry, her spirit guide, that “your boat is already too full. You’re going to have to be ready to decide who goes overboard,” Jane’s determined to protect everyone in her charge—whatever the cost to their pursuers. A supercharged final pursuit that’s a fitting close to Perry’s remarkably consistent career as a master of suspense. Copyright © Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.