One Boy Missing

It was a butcher on smoko who reported the man stashing the kid in the car boot. He didn't reallyknow whether he'd seen anything at all, though. Maybe an abduction? Maybe just a stressed-outfather. Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the country town where his ailing, cantankerous fatherstill lives, finds nothing. As far as he can tell no one in Guilderton is missing a small boy. Still, helooks deeper into the butcher's story-after all, he had a son of his own once. But when the boy does turn up, silent, apparently traumatised, things are no clearer. Who is he?Where did he come from and what happened to him? For Moy, gaining the boy's trust becomes central not just to the case but to rebuilding his ownlife. From the wreckage of his grief, his dead marriage and his fractured relationship with hisfather may yet come a chance for something new. A mystery, a meditation on fatherhood, a harrowing examination of love and loss- a newdeparture in literary crime from Stephen Orr.

Ideal for readers interested in general fiction.