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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The Last Child

By John Hart

I'm a total sucker for police mystery/drama novels. So naturally, this book caught my attention while I was browsing the book department at Target for something to read. Apparently, this author has written several other novels, but I had never heard of him before. I decided to give this book a try and ended up finishing this book by bedtime the following day. All I have to say is...WOW!! Talk about drama and suspense! While I did guess the final outcome of the novel, I had no idea how point A got to point B so reading the entire novel was still exciting. I might just have to go find more books by this author.
The story starts out a year after a young girls goes missing from a small town. The focus is on the twin brother and how he deals with the fallout from this tragic event. A side story is how far one cop in the town will go to solve the mystery and why he's so involved. I know stories like this have been told before, but the raw emotion in this book seemed so real I could almost imagine myself in their shoes. How does a family deal with missing child whose fate is unknown? How does an unsolved crime effect a cop whose job centers around such tragedies? You'll have to read this novel to find out and I highly recommend that you do!!

Similar Novel: Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
Length: 432 Pages
Copyright: March 2010

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