No One to Hear Them Scream
(2024)(A book in the Alice and Dudley Thriller series)
A novel by Peggy Webb
“She stood still among the trees, listening to the secrets of the river. They came to Alice in bursts of color and sound. Blood red, staining the water, screams suddenly silenced.”
Alice Logan Jones is a woman broken by divorce. She lives a quiet, reclusive life in smalltown Mooreville, Mississippi, where she keeps books for local doctors and tries to keep out of reach of her nosey neighbors, retired ex-cop Dudley next door and retired circus performer Madeline in the gaudy house across the street. Her only companion is Thunder, her search and rescue dog.
How she, a former couch potato, became a SAR handler is a story too heartbreaking to even think about. So, she doesn’t. She just finds the lost. Most recently, five-year-old Emma Craine, taken by a depraved maniac known as the Chameleon.
Now another child is missing from the state park. Not just any child, but one closer than she would ever have imagined, a child who draws her back into the life she thought she’d left behind.
Even worse, the case is high profile. The missing child is the granddaughter of a Senator. The fear is that she in the hands of the Chameleon, a heartless killer.
Alice begins her search amid a media circus that only gets worse. Children within a hundred-mile radius are vanishing at an alarming rate. And Alice, herself, becomes a target.
Can one woman and her remarkable dog survive long enough to save the children? Can she ever forgive her past and learn to love again?
Genre: Mystery
Alice Logan Jones is a woman broken by divorce. She lives a quiet, reclusive life in smalltown Mooreville, Mississippi, where she keeps books for local doctors and tries to keep out of reach of her nosey neighbors, retired ex-cop Dudley next door and retired circus performer Madeline in the gaudy house across the street. Her only companion is Thunder, her search and rescue dog.
How she, a former couch potato, became a SAR handler is a story too heartbreaking to even think about. So, she doesn’t. She just finds the lost. Most recently, five-year-old Emma Craine, taken by a depraved maniac known as the Chameleon.
Now another child is missing from the state park. Not just any child, but one closer than she would ever have imagined, a child who draws her back into the life she thought she’d left behind.
Even worse, the case is high profile. The missing child is the granddaughter of a Senator. The fear is that she in the hands of the Chameleon, a heartless killer.
Alice begins her search amid a media circus that only gets worse. Children within a hundred-mile radius are vanishing at an alarming rate. And Alice, herself, becomes a target.
Can one woman and her remarkable dog survive long enough to save the children? Can she ever forgive her past and learn to love again?
Genre: Mystery
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