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One Last Child
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December 1, 2022
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December 31, 2022

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Brenda
The day five children – all three years old – disappeared while on a picnic from nursery school was the day the lives of the parents and family of those children changed forever. Homicide Detective Kate Wakeland was the grandmother of one of the children; Ivy, her daughter Abby’s child. The heartbreak and fear was immediate while the police swung into action, knowing those first minutes and hours were vitally important. The task force that worked tirelessly could find no answers – the frustratio ...more
PattyMacDotComma
3.5~4★
“The returns would need to be swift and efficient. Each child back to his or her home.
All but for one child.
One child would not be returned tonight.
One child would never be returned.”


[The events I describe are alluded to in the publisher’s blurb, not spoilers!]

This mystery opens with a nervous driver preparing to return abducted children to their homes. They were kidnapped at the age of three from a pre-school picnic in the park, where an ice-cream van playing the well-known ‘Greensleeves’
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