Who knows what lurks behind the facade of a seemingly normal person? In The Missing Girl, prolific writer Norma Fox Mazer invites us into the mind of a nameless pedophile as he searches for, and targets a victim. The five Herbert sisters, Beauty, Fancy, Stevie, Mim, and Autumn have a variety of concerns: despair over love, the changes brought about by a parent's injury and subsequent loss of income, and the desire to escape the confines of their small town in upstate New York. However, unbeknownst to the girls, a pedophile obsessively watches them as they walk to school. One day, the youngest sister, 11-year-old Autumn, becomes lost, innocently asks this man for directions, and is kidnapped. Short, fast-paced chapters that reveal the family's strength in the face of crisis, Autumn's resourceful and triumphant escape, and the element of danger lurking beneath the surface of ordinary life will hook readers until the story's conclusion. Mazer skillfully probes the thought processes of a dangerous person who could be anywhere, or anyone we know.
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