A Child Is Missing (The Dog Hermit)

✍ Scribed by Stout, David

• Book ID: 109283894
• Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 621 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781497663329

✦ Synopsis

A newspaper editor in upstate New York is drawn into a deadly web of hatred and suspicion when he joins the hunt for a kidnapped little boy in this gritty and evocative thriller from an Edgar Award -winning author
Long Creek in New York's Hill County is an angry place--depressed, suspicious, and unforgiving. In the aftermath of a late-November snowstorm, one of the town's youngest citizens, five-year-old Jamie Brokow, the son of wealthy divorced parents, is abducted. His family pays the kidnappers their ransom, but the boy is never returned--and soon afterward, Fran Spicer, the local reporter covering the case, dies as the result of a mysterious car crash that the police are all too eager to attribute to alcohol.

Will Schafer edits a newspaper in a neighboring county, and he's less willing to dismiss the death of his friend Spicer so easily. Schafer won't find much local support for his investigation, however--strangers like him are...