Absent Friends — S.J. Rozan

Jimmy. Markie. Vicky. Sally. Tom. Jack. Marian. Their friendships are strong, and their futures bright--until one shattering night that changes everything. Two of the friends will die young. The others are left to pick up the pieces in the shadow of a past that still echoes with hopes and regrets. And one--Jimmy, a firefighter--will die a hero twenty years later when the Twin Towers fall. But it is the suicide of a reporter and a colleague's search for answers in the aftermath of a horrifying tragedy that will finally penetrate their silence....For as the story of that night begins to unwind, a tangle of secret relationships and personal demons is exposed--until the truth erupts with stunning force.