num_pages: 352
description: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Butterfly House called brazen and original by The Toronto Star comes a timely suspenseful and darkly original new novel about a missing child and the web of lies that has threatened his lifeand may prevent him from ever being found. When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears the police assume hes simply a runawaya typically overlooked middle child doing what teenagers do all around the world. But his frantic family is certain that something terrible has happened. After all what runaway would leave behind a note that reads: He looked around and saw the knife that had stabbed Basil Hallward. He had cleaned it many times till there was no stain left upon it. It was bright and glistened. As it had killed the painter so it would kill the painters work and all that that meant. It would kill the past and when that was dead he would be free. Its not much to go on but its all that detectives Jeppe Krner and Anette Werner have. And with every passing hour as the odds of finding a missing person grow dimmer it will have to be enough.
language: English
title: The Harbor
publisher: Gallery/Scout Press