One Boy Missing

'A sensitive and sometimes-moving look at a man drowning in the sorrows of his past, with a prickly relationship with his father and with a child who desperately needs to trust someone...A sweetly told tale of fatherhood and loss.' Kirkus Reviews

It was a butcher who saw the man stashing the kid in the car boot. He didn't really know what he'd seen. Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the Australian country town where his father still lives, finds nothing. Nobody reports a boy missing. Still, he looks deeper into the butcher's story - after all, he had a son of his own once.

When the boy does turn up - silent, traumatized - things are no clearer. Who is he? Where did he come from and what happened to him?

A mystery, a meditation on fatherhood, and an examination of love and loss.


Genre: Mystery