The Wonder Test

Reeling from the deaths of her husband and father, New York–based FBI agent Lina Connerly takes a hiatus and moves back to Greenfield, the Northern California town where she grew up, bringing her 15-year-old son Rory. Lina must settle her father’s estate and sort through her feelings of grief over the loss of her husband and guilt over her last assignment, which went fatally wrong. Greenfield has changed since Lina lived there. Real estate values have skyrocketed, and the town is obsessed with maintaining its high school’s top rating in a national exam called the Wonder Test, for which students endure a barrage of test prep. A local cop asks Lina for help on the cold case of a student who disappeared and then returned shell-shocked and incoherent. Then Rory’s new girlfriend goes missing, and Lina uses her FBI skills and connections to investigate.