In love

He had never planned to fall in love with her. One day it just happened to him. At first she seemed to respond to his restrained flirtations. When he confessed it to her, she found him pleasantly crazy. But she had not noticed. In fact, she seemed pleasantly surprised.
Just innocent enjoyment, that was what they agreed on. Without questions. Without nonsense about the life they led. Just enjoying the passion, which was doomed to disappear. They could both still think that clearly.
Until she misses their date and suddenly disappears. Into thin air. Her unlocked car with the keys inside and her cell phone are the only clues that she is stranded barely fifty meters from their rendezvous.
Should he alert the police? But then he must reveal their secret. Nothing at all happened between them, but who believes that? Only then does he ask himself the question he should have asked himself so much earlier: who was she?
Of all the women in the world, she had entered his life.
PATRICK DE BRUYN wrote five crime novels: File, Indringer, Vermist, Verminkt and Verdoemd. He is a master in describing everyday events with far-reaching consequences. His books have been nominated several times for the most important thriller prizes - the Gouden Strop, the Diamanten Kogel and the Hercule Poirot Prize.