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2000s: Missing children, dark woods, and a terror that lasts for centuries
The Child Finder
What you need to know before your trail
When the police have given up their search for a missing child, whatever the reason, their desperate families call Naomi Cottle
She possesses a rare, intuitive sense, born out of her own harrowing experience that allows her to succeed when others have failed.
Young Madison Culver has been missing for three years. She vanished on a family trip to the mountainous forests of Oregon, where they’d gone to cut down a tree for Christmas. Soon after she disappeared, blizzards swept the region and the authorities presumed she died from exposure. But Naomi knows that Madison isn’t dead.
Can she find the child, and is there something buried deep within this case?
Locations
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Oregon
The Skookum National Forest – even the name sounds like a small wild animal, one ruffling its nose, routing out the truth. And this forest has plenty of secrets to hide. It’s remote, dense and can suck someone in never to be found again. It’s remoter than remote. Cold, wet, damp, desolate and unforgiving in all weathers.
The Skookum Lake Trail
There are hidden communities here, men living in isolated cabins, where the hunters track and follow animals, using their fur and eating their meat. This is the wilderness .
The enchanted forest where the wicked witch is everywhere -Grimm fairytale-esque. One of the girls tells herself stories to keep herself sane. Gothically creepy and the story, like the mist in the forest, floats, smothers and chokes.
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
This is the kind of crime novel that the Grimm Brothers would write if they were into modern crime fiction and had a collection of Stephen Kings on the shelf.
A girl going missing on what should be a happy time for her and her family – getting your Christmas tree is quite an occasion in the states and this one ends in the worst way possible.
I liked Naomi and her story – really adds to her overall character and reason for fighting so hard. Madison’s story was hard to read at times but the tension stayed strong throughout and I felt cold and damp so atmospheric was the story and setting.
When I first started reading this I thought Naomi might be one of those psychics but she has to work really hard and go through some personal pain to find her answers. This is dark and disturbing, damp and wet and what comes out of the mist, deep in the Oregon forests, is something chilling, uncomfortable but the writing is quite sublime”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Child Finder
Author/Guide: Rene Denfeld Destination: Oregon Departure Time: 2000s
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