Radley had disguised his wife from the entire world and succeeded.

He had not counted on a father, because a father sees underneath the disguise to the child who was always there, and Ellard had found her in a photograph the way he would have found her anywhere, by the language of her that no one could take.

“And someone went to extraordinary lengths to make the world believe she did,” Cormoran said, very low.

Chapter 12 — The Locked Door

They did not wait for morning, or for backup.

That night, under a moonless sky, they went back to the industrial site.