The Vanished Child

<p>"Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why."<br /><br />New England 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson Richard the only witness is shocked into silence then disappears presumed kidnapped and killed.<br /><br />Switzerland 1905. Alexander von Reisden "intellectual immoral and unstable" is "recognized" as Richard. Despite Reisden's insistence he's not Richard he is drawn into the affairs of the Knight family--gaining the hatred of the new heir and the friendship of the heir's young fiancee Perdita Halley.<br /><br />But as Reisden tries to find out why Richard died he begins to have unsettling feelings of familiarity. For he is a man without memory of his own childhood and his obsession with finding Richard is leading him closer to a shattering truth.<br /><br />And to a killer still at large...</p>