Beneath Dark WaterMacmillan, 2005 - 272 sivua A child is missing. But does anybody care? Her name may be Talia, or Rachael, or Nico, but to Sherry Henderson, the little girl who shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep one day is simply Child. Sherry's own child is dead, killed in a random terrorist bombing, yet caring for Child somehow helps Sherry fill the aching void in her heart. Until Child abruptly disappears. To the police and social services, Child is just another twelve-year-old runaway, of no particular importance. Not even Child's real parents, once Sherry tracks them down, seem too concerned about what has become of her, and Sherry's own, highly judgmental family strongly disapproves of her unhealthy obsession with this lost little girl. But Sherry will not give up. Nothing, not even menacing letters and phone calls, can stop her from searching tirelessly for the missing girl, venturing deep into dangerous city streets, where no sensible suburban mother would set foot, only to discover that, in order to rescue Child, she must also find the truth about her own daughter's death. |
Sisältö
Luku 1 | 9 |
Luku 2 | 25 |
Luku 3 | 43 |
Luku 4 | 59 |
Luku 5 | 73 |
Luku 6 | 91 |
Luku 7 | 109 |
Luku 8 | 123 |
Luku 10 | 155 |
Luku 11 | 171 |
Luku 12 | 187 |
Luku 13 | 201 |
Luku 14 | 215 |
Luku 15 | 229 |
Luku 16 | 241 |
Luku 17 | 257 |
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
answer asked Aunt Ruth blinked bomb breath Caleb Captain Betz cold corner crazy crying dammit damn dark desk door dream Edge Gondack Elspeth Elspeth Henderson Elvis Presley eyes face feel felt find Child fire front gave gaze gel pen girl gone grabbed hair hair spray hands head heard heart hell hugged hurt inside kids killed kitchen Kleenex knew knocked Kotex living looked Luna Milk-Bone mother mousetrap Nana never Nico nodded Okay pepper spray police pulled Rachael Rambling roses remember roses row house Ruth's scanned Scheherazade scream Sherry Henderson Sherry's shook shoulder smile Snout sofa staring started stay stood stopped sure Talia talk tell thing thought told took trying turned voice walked watching water lilies wham What's whispered woman