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A Child Is Missing by David Stout is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Child Is Missing about?
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 & ndash;winning author Long Creek in New York & rsquo;s Hill County is an angry place & mdash;depressed, suspicious, and unforgiving. In the aftermath of a late-November snowstorm, one of the town & rsquo;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 & mdash;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 & rsquo;s less willing to dismiss the death of his friend Spicer so easily. Schafer won & rsquo;t find much local support for his investigation, however & mdash;strangers like him are not welcome in Long Creek. Still, he is determined to uncover the truth and see that justice is served, for Fran and for little Jamie. But the hunt could have powerful, unanticipated consequenc
Who reads A Child Is Missing?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- David Stout
- Publisher
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781497663329
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (26 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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