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Cambridge academic Michelle Spring uses the unique atmosphere of the city and its environs as a backdrop for her excellent series of Laura Principal: Private Investigator novels. In fact she is rapidly becoming to Cambridge what Colin Dexter is to Oxford, and Ian Rankin to Edinburgh. This novel is based on a particularly distressing premise. Playing happily on an otherwise deserted beach in Norfolk with his father close by, Timmy Cable disappeared. There were no witnesses to his vanishing and no body was ever found. The only clue as to what might have happened is the memory of a plain white van parked in a nearby car-park, but that, too, vanished without trace. There was an immense amount of publicity, for Timmy's father is an Arctic explorer and national hero, but in vain. Twelve years have now passed. Only Olivia, Timmy's mother, still searches, diligently and hopefully. Hope springs to life once more when she sees a blond, blue-eyed teenager busking on the streets of Cambridge - a boy who just might be what Timmy could have grown into over the years, and who reluctantly admits to slightly mysterious origins. Despite protests Olivia insists on adopting Liam, whom she is now convinced is Timmy. Called on partly to act as Olivia's protector, and partly to track down the truth, Laura finds herself faced with a trail long gone cold, and people who have their own secrets to hide. Her attempts to prove Liam's true identity blend bafflingly with her research into Timmy's long-ago disappearance. This is a gripping mystery novel with a well-drawn cast of characters - especially Laura, about whose personal life we learn more. But most striking is her depiction of Timmy's family, wrenched beyond bearing by the worst kind of loss: the inexplicable. (Kirkus UK)
It's been 12 years since four-year-old Timmy Cable disappeared from a Norfolk beach. But nothing that's passed since - not his father Jack's fame as a polar explorer, not the beautiful farmhouse in Grantchester his mother Olivia lovingly tends, not even their pride in older sister Catherine's success as a dancer and Cambridge student - has helped to ease the Cables' pain at not knowing their beloved son's fate. Then Olivia finds a musician named Liam on a Cambridge street corner who looks, sounds, even smells like her lost son. The Cables hire private eye Laura Principal ("Nights in White Satin", 1999, etc.) to look into Liam's past, but not - as Jack constantly warns - to "heavy" him. So perhaps it's out of caution that Laura studiously avoids the customary tools of her trade in her search for Liam's identity. No DNA testing, no questioning people who might know him, no following him home to see where he lives. Instead, she hangs around the Cables' country estate, watching as Olivia tries to draw close to the wary adolescent, driving him around the property in Jack's vintage Jaguar, cooking him tempting meals, even filling the long-drained family swimming pool for him. But after the Cables are secure enough that Timmy has returned to reopen their Norfolk summer home, Laura finds more clues than she bargained for about little boy lost and teenager found..Heavy on angst and short on legwork, Laura's latest explores human suffering for 20-odd chapters before springing surprises like jack-in-the-boxes for the last three. . (Kirkus Reviews)
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Twenty years ago a child vanished without trace from a wild stretch of shoreline in East Anglia. His body was never found and his parents have searched for him ever since. Now on a quiet street in Cambridge the mother discovers a young man whom she hopes against hope is her missing son. But the joy of reunion is laced with dread. Is this beautiful youth an interloper or is he really the lost child? And if he is the boy who disappeared from the beach, where has he been all these years? What, most of all is his connection with the violence that begins with his arrival and ends, almost inevitably, with murder? The parents of the disappeared child ask Laura Principal to investigate and try to find answers to these questions. She finds her own world turned upside down in this chilling story of identity, devotion - and death.
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Cambridge academic Michelle Spring uses the unique atmosphere of the city and its environs as a backdrop for her excellent series of Laura Principal: Private Investigator novels. In fact she is rapidly becoming to Cambridge what Colin Dexter is to Oxford, and Ian Rankin to Edinburgh. This novel is based on a particularly distressing premise. Playing happily on an otherwise deserted beach in Norfolk with his father close by, Timmy Cable disappeared. There were no witnesses to his vanishing and no body was ever found. The only clue as to what might have happened is the memory of a plain white van parked in a nearby car-park, but that, too, vanished without trace. There was an immense amount of publicity, for Timmy's father is an Arctic explorer and national hero, but in vain. Twelve years have now passed. Only Olivia, Timmy's mother, still searches, diligently and hopefully. Hope springs to life once more when she sees a blond, blue-eyed teenager busking on the streets of Cambridge - a boy who just might be what Timmy could have grown into over the years, and who reluctantly admits to slightly mysterious origins. Despite protests Olivia insists on adopting Liam, whom she is now convinced is Timmy. Called on partly to act as Olivia's protector, and partly to track down the truth, Laura finds herself faced with a trail long gone cold, and people who have their own secrets to hide. Her attempts to prove Liam's true identity blend bafflingly with her research into Timmy's long-ago disappearance. This is a gripping mystery novel with a well-drawn cast of characters - especially Laura, about whose personal life we learn more. But most striking is her depiction of Timmy's family, wrenched beyond bearing by the worst kind of loss: the inexplicable. (Kirkus UK)
It's been 12 years since four-year-old Timmy Cable disappeared from a Norfolk beach. But nothing that's passed since - not his father Jack's fame as a polar explorer, not the beautiful farmhouse in Grantchester his mother Olivia lovingly tends, not even their pride in older sister Catherine's success as a dancer and Cambridge student - has helped to ease the Cables' pain at not knowing their beloved son's fate. Then Olivia finds a musician named Liam on a Cambridge street corner who looks, sounds, even smells like her lost son. The Cables hire private eye Laura Principal ("Nights in White Satin", 1999, etc.) to look into Liam's past, but not - as Jack constantly warns - to "heavy" him. So perhaps it's out of caution that Laura studiously avoids the customary tools of her trade in her search for Liam's identity. No DNA testing, no questioning people who might know him, no following him home to see where he lives. Instead, she hangs around the Cables' country estate, watching as Olivia tries to draw close to the wary adolescent, driving him around the property in Jack's vintage Jaguar, cooking him tempting meals, even filling the long-drained family swimming pool for him. But after the Cables are secure enough that Timmy has returned to reopen their Norfolk summer home, Laura finds more clues than she bargained for about little boy lost and teenager found..Heavy on angst and short on legwork, Laura's latest explores human suffering for 20-odd chapters before springing surprises like jack-in-the-boxes for the last three. . (Kirkus Reviews)
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Twenty years ago a child vanished without trace from a wild stretch of shoreline in East Anglia. His body was never found and his parents have searched for him ever since. Now on a quiet street in Cambridge the mother discovers a young man whom she hopes against hope is her missing son. But the joy of reunion is laced with dread. Is this beautiful youth an interloper or is he really the lost child? And if he is the boy who disappeared from the beach, where has he been all these years? What, most of all is his connection with the violence that begins with his arrival and ends, almost inevitably, with murder? The parents of the disappeared child ask Laura Principal to investigate and try to find answers to these questions. She finds her own world turned upside down in this chilling story of identity, devotion - and death.
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