I still slept quite a bit of yesterday. I’m not hurrying the recovery process. So, I didn’t get the chance to finish a book. But, I did start a promising police procedural.
This is not a spoiler to say E.A. Jackson’s Missing starts with a missing baby. For those who do not read “children in jeopardy” books, that baby is returned. But, thirty years later, Detective Chief Superintendent Martha Allen, who had worked that case, was never satisfied. However, when a woman showed up with the baby, the case was closed, despite Allen’s questions. Now, Nell Beatty, who returned the baby, has been found murdered. It gives Allen the chance to look again at that old case.
I love cold cases that are done well, and, in the first fifty pages, this one fits. A cold case in London, a female inspector, and a police procedural. If all goes well, I’ll finish the book today. I’m looking forward to this one.
I’m glad you’re feeling better and I’m looking forward to your review of the book. I like cold cases too.
Thank you, Sandy. I love a good cold case.
Glad you are doing a bit better.
Also interested in the book though I am no fan of endangered kids books. Started bothering me when I became a parent. Got way worse when I was working for the school district and started learning about what so many kids were going through.
Anyway, you do you, and do the getting better thing.
Thanks, Kevin. Although the book starts by being about a missing child case, it’s obvious from the flap and the beginning of the book that the child is returned. So, no worries on that front. It’s really about the current murder, and what really happened in that original case.
I just finished Missing yesterday! I didn’t know the plot before starting, so was surprised when the baby was returned about halfway through the book.
I found the characters interesting and varied, although the good-old-boys are rather a typecast lot.
I wondered about that, MM. It seemed obvious early on that the good-old-boys didn’t know what to do with a female police officer.
it does sound interesting enough to try. my library has a copy.
I liked it, Jeff. I liked the way the author handled the cold case. No flashbacks that sometimes bother readers.