One Last Child (Tallman's Valley Detectives Book 1)
<i>Winner, AudioFile Earphones Award for audio narration. Top 100 in Amazon eBooks, US, UK, Canada & Australia, 2021</i><br><br><b>Five long-missing children are about to be RETURNED.</b><br><br>It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air....<br><br><b>Three-and-a-half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned to their families... one by one.</b><br><br>All except for Ivy - the granddaughter of homicide detective Kate Wakeland. The other four children say Ivy is dead.<br><br><b>Speculation grows that the mysterious abductor is enacting a cruel revenge plot due to a murderer that Kate put in jail years before.</b><br><br>Kate isn't sure what to believe. But one thing is certain - she's about to begin the battle of her life. When the children were first stolen, she was prevented from investigating the case.<br><br><b>But now, Kate will be relentless in uncovering the identity of the abductor and discovering what happened to Ivy.</b><br><br>Book 1: ONE LAST CHILD<br>Book 2: THE LULLABY MAN<br>Book 3: THE SILENT TOWN<br><br><b>Questions and answers on the TALLMAN'S VALLEY DETECTIVES series:</b><br><br><b>Is each book a standalone?</b>: Each book has a complete ending and can be read as a standalone. But if you intend reading the series, it's best to read them in sequence. There will be spoilers if the books are read out of order. Each book has a small cliffhanger at the end that is not a part of the main story. There is an overarching background storyline running through all the books.<br><br><b>Will the detective be the same each time?</b>: The current series will all feature Senior Detective Kate Wakeland as the main character, right to the end of Books 1, 2 & 3.