In Jesse Kellerman’s Sunstroke, Gloria Mendez has been unrequitedly pining for her much older, solitary boss Carl Perreira for ten years. So when Carl disappears and is pronounced death via a fiery car crash on an annual trip to Mexico — an aspect to his life he has never told her about — after leaving a frantic, garbled message on her answering machine, Gloria impulsively decides to search for him, not quite sure if he really is dead. But what she uncovers may be more than she has bargained for as both hers and Carl’s pasts come to light: including false identities, abandoned sons, and a whole mess of danger.

Read a brief review of Sunstroke here.