The Back Before Dark

<p><strong>Praise for <em>Code of Silence</em></strong></p><p>Deliberate plausible and gritty whodunit. -<em>Booklist</em> Starred Review</p><p><strong>Praise for <em>Back Before Dark</em></strong></p><p><strong></strong>The climax? You will not have any fingernails left by the final page. -<em>Booklist </em></p><p>Taken!</p><p>A detour through the park leads Cooper Gordy Hiro and Lunk straight into a trap and Gordy is abducted!</p><p>The kidnapper a brilliant high-school student with a bitter agenda thinks it's all a big game but evil has a way of escalating and consuming.</p><p>Despite the best of police efforts the hours tick by without a clue or a ransom call leaving everyone to their own fears. Gordy is gone. Cooper descends deeper into a living nightmare imagining the worst for his best friend and cousin. Hours stretch into days and talks of a memorial service begin to surface. But Cooper still feels his cousin is alive and develops a reckless plan changing all the rules. Now the one who set out to rescue his friend needs to be rescued himself.</p>