Curl up in your favorite reading spot and prepare to read this one all the way through. We start off with suspense, and we just stay there for the entirety of What Remains , yet masterful storyteller Wendy Walker knows how to save us from fatigue, teasing the suspense like a symphony. Sometimes the horns blare, sometimes it’s just one violin strumming to your heartbeat, and you will find yourself turning pages and checking over your shoulder as you follow along with Walker’s twists and turns. We immediately meet our main character, Elise, as she’s in that shock-trauma-denial response some of us get when something very bad is happening and we now have to figure out what our role of response needs to be. Do we freeze, do we run, do we stay and fight? Elise shakes with these thoughts as she unearths her training as a police officer. Maybe she’s not that kind of police officer, but she has training, she has a weapon, and she has to act, doesn’t she? With uncert