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    "description": "<p>Two girls vanished. A woman buried alive. Between two crimes&mdash;decades of secrets yet to be unearthed. Summer 1980: With no fear of a local superstition, three girls go into a Minnesota wood. Only one comes out. Dead silent. Memory gone. No trace of her friends. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation. Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide&mdash;a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls. Van follows her gut. Harry trusts in facts. Their common ground is the need to catch a killer before he kills again. They have something else in common: each has ties to the original case in ways they&rsquo;re reluctant to share. As Van and Harry connect the crimes of the past and the present, Van struggles with memories of her own nightmarish childhood&mdash;and the fear that uncovering the truth of the Taken Ones will lead her down a path from which she, too, may never return.</p>",
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