Little Boy Lost
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M5CIL2L |
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| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Solid Kindle First selection, well written mystery Kindle First is back on track, two good months in a row. For anyone else like me who gravitates toward the mystery / thriller genres, you are likely trying to decide between this and the historical mystery title. I read the samples of both and this was the one I really wanted to continue reading. There are 69 . "Talented Writing Style Helps Mystery Novel" according to A. Reader. “Little Boy Lost” was a great idea for a story, though it would be hard to place it under the thriller label. I felt the book properly belonged in the legal/mystery genre. As such, author J. D. Trafford has presented an excellent tale, injecting it with enough procedural items to keep it interestin. Incredible This is an extraordinary read. My Kindle First pick for the month. I flew through it which is strange really for such an emotionally draining and intense storyline with many uncomfortable themes and societal slurs. Yet, J.D. Trafford (a new writer to me) writes so well, so flawlessly, that the heartbreaking, m
Readers will remember Justin long after closing the book. Happily, he has the support of a few good people. From Publishers WeeklyThe beaten-down Rust Belt city of St. (Starred Review). Arthur Glass, a member of a prominent African American family, went from fighting in the civil rights movement of the 1960s to decades of service as a US congressman. Arthur now plans to retire and wants his lawyer son, Justin, to campaign for the seat. Louis provides the setting for this tense, powerful thriller from Trafford (the No Time trilogy). Incensed, Justin embarks on a dangerous quest that changes his life forever as he runs up against entrenched racism, corruption, and political chicanery. But Justin is a mess: mourning the death of his beloved wife, neglecting his nine-year-old daughter, and running a legal practice in a poor part of town. A bunch of youths of unsavory reputation have disappeared, Tanisha’s b
And none had been investigated.As simmering racial tensions explode into violence, Justin finds himself caught in the tide. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body—and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn’t have the heart to turn her away.Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. And as he gives voice to the discontent plaguing the city’s forgotten and ignored, he vows to search for the killer who preys upon them.. An Charts bestseller.A broken city, a missing young man, and a lawyer searching for truth when nobody else cares.Attorney Justin Glass’s practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn’t doing so well that he can afford to work for free. Each had been reported missing
He now lives with his wife and children in the Midwest, and he bikes whenever possible.. IndieReader selected his debut novel, No Time to Run, as a bestselling pick. Trafford graduated with honors from a top-twenty law school, and he has worked as a civil and criminal prosecutor, as an associate at a large national law firm, and as a nonprofit attorney. Prior to law school, he worked in Washington, DC, and lived in Saint Louis, Missouri. He’s handled iss