The Missing Children - A Contemporary Crime Thriller (Kindle Edition)
By Anna O'Hare
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On the day of his brother’s funeral, Benjamin Morris saves a small boy from drowning in the river and falls in love with one of the bystanders, a psychologist named Mae. Then his three-year-old son is abducted from his nursery school along with many other children across the country. This is a beautifully written whodunit wrapped up in metaphors. Who are all these abducted children and where have they gone?
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Two weeks before the day at Midsummer Common, Jacob Morris threw a dish at his kitchen wall. It wasn't just any plate but the Denby serving dish that his mother-in-law had bought him and his wife when they first moved to Oxfordshire twenty five years ago. It was cream inside and a dark brown around the edges, an unimaginative, seventies looking dish, and when it hit the wall it shattered into a hundred pieces, some big, some small, some cream, some dark, which scattered around the worktop and skidded across the floor. His wife, whose back was turned when he grabbed the dish, gave a little scream of surprise and whipped around. Jacob had wanted to say something to her in this moment, something vindictive and triumphant, something gallant and dignified, but all he did was stand there, panting, his shoulders heaving up and down in his anger, his fists clenched, his face crimson, the broken bits of pottery at his feet. They stared at each other, man and wife, for several seconds. And then Paula gave a toss of her head so that the locks of her tawny hair rolled over one another like silk. Jacob deflated but he could still think of nothing to say. Paula picked up her bag.
“If that's all you got,” she said and turned towards the door, “I'm going. I'll ring about the girls. I don't think they should see you until you've stopped throwing dishes.”
- Rank: #207536 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-27
- Released on: 2012-12-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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