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200s: A baby goes missing in the remote Scottish Highlands
200s: A baby goes missing in the remote Scottish Highlands
When Claire Lucas is woken by her husband asking where their baby son is, she is dazed and confused. When she follows Darren into their child’s bedroom, she hears nothing but silence. No baby cries, no cute gurgles. The only thing left in Finlay’s cot is his beloved teddy bear. Finlay has gone.
Detective Jessie Blake rushes to the family’s modern home in the rugged Scottish Highlands. She notices that Darren avoids eye contact, and Claire seems disconnected – unable to account for the last few hours of her afternoon. Jessie knows there’s no normal response to losing a child, but something doesn’t feel right.
Friends rally round the young family, as a search of the narrow lanes and green hills of Moncrieffe begins in earnest. And as helpers battle the wild Scottish weather, Jessie is sure that someone in the search party must know more than they’re letting on. Someone must have seen something.
As a ghost from her own past comes back to haunt her, Jessie must put aside her own personal tragedy to save baby Finlay. Can she get the people of the small town to talk before it’s too late?
Bridge of Earn is a small and unassuming village but it’s the scene of some criminal activity in this book! A quiet place to bring up baby or one to keep your children close? This is a village where nobody really is what they seem to be and everybody seems to have a secret.
If you are a man or woman alone with a child in a small village, who can you call for help?
Destination: Scottish Highlands, Perth, Bridge of Earn Author/Guide: Kerry Watts Departure Time: 2000s
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